From owner-aic7xxx Thu Feb 25 12:37:21 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from lacrosse.redhat.com (lacrosse.redhat.com [207.175.42.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D511C14DF7 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dledford@redhat.com) Received: from kabal.redhat.com (root@kabal.redhat.com [207.175.42.20]) by lacrosse.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15119; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:36:22 -0500 Received: from redhat.com (dledford@kabal.redhat.com [207.175.42.20]) by kabal.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15862; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:36:24 -0500 Message-ID: <36D5B448.B10DC1AD@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:36:24 -0500 From: Doug Ledford Organization: RedHat Softwarem, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert G. Brown" Cc: Maxwell Spangler , AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Robert G. Brown" wrote: > I've got or run several, and some of them have ended up being enough of > a pain in the butt that we've disassembled one or the other subsystem > and moved it. It has been extraordinarily difficult to achieve stable > bootability, for example -- sometimes one of the systems boots, runs for > a while, and dies. Still I do have one that has run for months > perfectly happily, although it only relatively rarely uses its 2940, and > my samples are very small. If you say I'm not alone in having problems > I'll eschew this configuration in future designs. I have every intent to make sure this configuration is safe in 2.4, but I make no guarantees about it for 2.0 or 2.2. And yes, I can confirm you are not alone in this regard. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message