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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:45:01 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News 
Message-ID:  <199807241545.IAA00798@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:48 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723190320.27155A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> 

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> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:
> > 
> > >   I've just seen a RedHat 5.1 system with a such a controller, hang.  It
> > > doesn't seem the Linux DPT driver is very stable.  It seems easy to get
> > > into a situation where all processes accessing the disk, hang.  The
> > > FreeBSD DPT driver seems quite a bit more solid than that, although
> > > setting it up is more difficult.
> > 
> > Not really anymore, apparently the 2.2.7 boot floppy now has the driver
> > built on it (yay!).
> 
>   Yes, but sysinstall bugs will probably force you to do most of the
> filesystem setup manually.  See archives.  

Please try to keep your comments accurate and relevant.  The sysinstall 
bugs have been fixed, and had nothing whatsoever to do with "filesystem 
setup".

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