From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 5:27:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dozer.skynet.be (dozer.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2842159D9 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 05:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by dozer.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id OAA08402; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:22:36 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000110234635.A21865@phoenix.welearn.com.au> References: <20000109235744.01C49A54EE@netcom1.netcom.com> <20000110234635.A21865@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:19:10 +0100 To: Jonathan Michaels From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:46 PM +1100 2000/1/10, Jonathan Michaels wrote: > what sort of hardware problems, please ? Issues with some older Pentium motherboards apparently losing their minds (and their timing interrupts) with the new ATA driver (replaces the old wd driver). There are also some issues with laptops and PC Cards, especially CardBus cards. > not architectural, or as regards old i386dx style, or i486dx > style motherboards and thier atendant isa buss structures. > > my couple are running very well with 2.2.7-release, but sooner > or latter i wll need to get on board a more recent freebsd, if > for no other reason than for teh inherant security weakness > that have been fixed over the last year or so. also, i have a > few adaptec aha1542b's that are running very well, some of teh > newer stuff is .... those small and fragile pci buss cards tend > to get damaged quickly if not handled correctly, my hands are > not a agile as they used to be is what i'm getting at here. Watch the older cards. I think that AHA152x series support was just recently added back into 3.x-STABLE, specifically with 3.4-RELEASE (at least, I recall seeing that when last I read the RELEASE_NOTES). I don't recall whether or not they're supported under 4.x-CURRENT. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message