From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 22:05:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BC616A4B3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tmgcon.com (tmgcon.com [128.121.216.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B213B44029 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gentoo@tmgcon.com) Received: from gentoo (210-55-83-55.dialup.xtra.co.nz [210.55.83.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by tmgcon.com (8.12.9p1/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8U55jGa012739; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:05:47 +0100 (BST) From: Tom Munro Glass To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:05:44 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309301555.35286.gentoo@tmgcon.com> <2732410000.1064895810@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: <2732410000.1064895810@aslan.scsiguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309301705.44007.gentoo@tmgcon.com> cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Ultra320 on 4.8-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:05:50 -0000 Thanks for this news Justin. I've been reading a thread which is only 3 weeks old at: http://news.gw.com/freebsd.aic7xxx/749 and this talks about problems with a SuperMicro X5SS8-GM mobo and Maxtor Atlas drives. I was considering buying exactly that combination until I read this thread! Do you happen to know if this combination of hardware will work, or can you recommend drives which are known to have worked reliably? Thanks, Tom Munro Glass On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:23, you wrote: > > I've seen loads of messages in various FreeBSD mailing lists discussing > > problems with U320 and the Adaptec 7902, and yet HARDWARE.TXT says this > > is supported in 4.8-RELEASE. > > > > Can someone please clarify the situation - is it possible to use U320 > > with 4.8-RELEASE or is it safer to stick with U160 for now? > > There have been several improvements to the aic79xx driver since 4.8-R. > The driver in -stable should work well so long as you are running with > good cables and the firmware on your drives is the latest offered by > the vendor. > > -- > Justin