From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 26 19:43:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08966 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA08945 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0y8GPm-0005BZ-00; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:24:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:24:44 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Nate Williams cc: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II , Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do you support In-Reply-To: <199802261802.LAA27404@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > Nope, Stefan Esser wrote all of the NCR drivers, and if I may say so > myself, I've only one *ONE* problem (and it turned out to be in another > part of the system that triggered the 'error') in the 2.5 years I've > owned them, while the Adaptec people have weekly problems. The > advantage of having access to the programming documentation has been > obvious to me. Weekly problems is a bit of an exaggeration Programming info is available for Adaptec cards, just like the NCR cards. Perhaps maybe 3 years ago that was case, but not for a long time. The Adaptec cards do more things on-board so the driver is more complex. Also, the existing ahc driver is not being maintained anymore. It has known bugs that no one will fix, because the SCSI people are looking ahead to CAM. The CAMified ahc driver is reputed to very solid (wcarchive.cdrom.com uses it), but is only for serious hackers right now. > Nate Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message