Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 09:49:47 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console w/ SCSI hangs... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511094716.6922B-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199805110020.SAA14806@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote... > > > > Is there any way of rebooting using the serial console when a SCSI bus > > hang happens? On a Sparc system, the serial console is hardware driven, > > not software, so you can break down to the prom and reboot that way... > > > > With the SCSI bus hang in mind...what is the ETA on getting the CAM > > drivers finally integrated? :) > > Well, our goal is to get hardware support all the way done, or > almost all the way done before CAM goes into -current. If we do that, we'll > avoid un-supporting people that were able to use FreeBSD before. There may > be a couple of crufty old cards (Seagate ST01?) whose drivers won't get > ported to CAM, but most everything else should. > > As for a real ETA, that's difficult to say. The good news is that > Justin's documentation is coming along nicely, so the folks that have been > waiting on documentation to continue with writing hardware drivers won't > have to wait much longer. Is there any way of getting more periodic snapshots? The only support i need is the ahc support, which is there now, but when I tried to install the last snapshot, the patches failed misearbly :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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