From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 24 08:46:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28930 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles238.castles.com [208.214.165.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28868 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00798; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807241545.IAA00798@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tom cc: Doug White , Lee Reese , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:48 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:45:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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". -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message