From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 26 21:08:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17452 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17439 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:08:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23373; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:08:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA01402; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:08:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:08:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199802270508.WAA01402@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tom Cc: Nate Williams , Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: do you support In-Reply-To: References: <199802261802.LAA27404@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. My NCR board performs within 10% (sometimes faster in certain benchmarks) of the Adaptec driver, and hasn't been broken in 3 years. Tell me that the stability/usability of not having it broken *ever* in 3 years isn't worth it. > Also, the existing ahc driver is not being maintained anymore. The NCR has rarely been touched as well. > It has known bugs that no one will fix, because the SCSI people are > looking ahead to CAM. Yet another good reason not to use the Adaptec boards. Looking to the future is all well and good, but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth to get stuck with brokeness all in the name of progress, especially when other options exist. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message