Date: Mon, 22 May 95 12:12:40 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <9505221812.AA16469@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9505221802.AA16354@cs.weber.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at May 22, 95 02:09:17 pm
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> > > Please provide some mechanism to indicate quoted material. I barely > > recognized the quoted text as coming from Rod. > > I did, it was the standard practice if > the quoted materials. Here is the entire message as I received it; the quoting ']' is mine: ]Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com> ]Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 23:15:40 -0400 ]To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org ]Subject: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE ]X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #10 (NOV) ]Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org ]Precedence: bulk ] ]I will not be pursuaded to change my stance on Bus Logic due to past ]record. There current record is horrible, and that is enough for me ]to pursuade people to seek alternatives, realize I sell these products, ] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ] ]Wait a minute, your telling me that because the support for the buslogic cards ]are broken (when not two weeks ago it was the card suggested as the best and ]most reliable by many on the freebsd-hackers lists) that we should buy ]different cards instead of fixing the broken drivers? If this is how broken ]drivers are handled (okay, dont use THAT one) FreeBSD has some serious ]problems... Tell me Im misunderstanding something here, afterall I know I ]chose FreeBSD over Linux primarily because I felt it was better supported with ]a central core team and such. Is this not a true statement? ] ]-Crh ]-- ] ] Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu ] ] http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/ Sorry, but having had wierd material misattributed to me (the worst case was part of a respose by someone to a Jesus Monry posting), I get a bit picky. 8-(. > I understand that in the current context that it isnt the drivers, however the > thread was started with a system panic'ing and such, not just system hangs. I > do have software problems with the drivers, if you write to a tape drive while > using the driver, it will randomly write bits all over all drives, thats bad! > > > Currently, you have also purchased a Quantum Grand Prix drive, which > > Wrong "you", I have an EISA buslogic system. Sorry about that; the problem here was it was a reply to Rod's post to the other "you", and I (incorrectly) assumed it was the same thread by virtue of it being the same subject. Please note the intentional public reply to clear up any misunderstanding. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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