From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 1 14:39:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF46537B416; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB1MiDv02533; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112012244.fB1MiDv02533@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Scott Long , Bohdan Horst , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT PM 1564 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:57:14 PST." <200111301757.fAUHvEx24745@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:44:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If memory serves me right, Scott Long wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:20:22PM +0100, Bohdan Horst wrote: > > > > > > is DPT PM 1564 supported under FreeBSD (-STABLE) ? > > > > > > it isn't mention on asr(4) .. > > > > This card should work with the asr driver. However, IIRC this card > > is built around a buggy QLogic SCSI chip that can cause data > > corruption under certain conditions. > > Hmmm...should we update manpages/hardware list/etc.? Or leave it out > due to the problems you mentioned? If this is the Qlogic problem I'm aware of, it's a rare data corruption issue that's thermally related; I don't think that it's something we need to mention. If the card fails in the fashion I expect, we can probably handle the very occasional complaints by simply aiming people at DPT. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message