From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 23:40:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17131 for current-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dcs.stu.rpi.edu (kdupuis@dcs.stu.rpi.edu [128.113.161.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA17118 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:40:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kdupuis@localhost) by dcs.stu.rpi.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA03538 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 02:39:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 02:39:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth J. Dupuis" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3c590 problem In-Reply-To: <199611020515.PAA06637@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Fair enough; that justifies a PCI card of some description. Agreed. > ... and perhaps I should have been clearer. I suspect that the 590 as > a card is quite OK, but a number of Unices have problems with them, > and the 'vx' driver isn't quite up to snuff yet. If this sytem is > mission-critical (and it sounds like it is), the extremely robust and > well-tested 'de' driver, and the very cheap cards that it supports > are a more sensible choice. I see. I will check into that first thing on Monday.