From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 12:24:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17294 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:24:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17265 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 1323 invoked by uid 1000); 29 May 1998 20:26:01 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FAC7@freya.circle.net> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:26:01 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: tcobb Subject: RE: DPT driver fails and panics with Degraded Array Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , Mike Smith , Greg Lehey Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-May-98 tcobb wrote: ... > Indeed. And that was the point of sending to freebsd-current. I wanted > anyone using the DPT driver and expecting it to perform appropriately in > critical circumstances to know that it will not do so. I perhaps should > have sent the email to -hackers instead? Or, maybe -scsi, like I did -- > it is a scsi driver problem I'm talking about. I am steadily losing patience here :-( You have NOT provided me with any information indicating that the driver is at fault. My understanding of the DPT subsystem and of the driver for FreeBSD indicate it is NOT a driver fault. Before jumping into a conclusion as to what caused the problem, you shuld have at least sent me a note about it. Your desire to ``warn others'' is suspect. Not only is is suspect, but it may deter others from using FreeBSD and/or the DPT drivers for no good reason. ... > I agree. I wouldn't have done so without provocation. My counterpoint > is that FreeBSD-STABLE is NOT stable, either. Regardless, due to > show-stopper bugs in -stable... Again, you have yet to demonstrate any bug in any software here. > My choices were: > > 1. Discard FreeBSD completely for this server. > 2. Switch to a -current snapshot. > > I didn't want to do #1, so I spent two weeks rolling a -current snapshot > release for my in-house use, I tested it, and tested it. It works well. > > My posting was really to point to the fact that it appears that the DPT > driver is deficient across ALL releases, not just -current. Yet again, what exactly supports this opinion? Simon --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message