Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:37:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: aha1522 ?? Message-ID: <19970715093747.OA57762@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu>; from M. L. Dodson on Jul 14, 1997 14:43:34 -0500 References: <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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As M. L. Dodson wrote: > > This is an understatement. I would call it ``basically unusable''. > > It suffers extensive bit-rot. > Doesn't the 1522 use the same driver as the little minimal controller > that comes with internal SCSI ZIP disks? It does. > I've been recommending that > to people to "gently" introduce them to SCSI (for SCSI tape drives, > for example). Is this status likely to remain this way? Unless you volunteer to change it, probably. Even if the driver were better, the AIC6[23]60 is a PIO-mode chip, which makes it suffering the same performance vs. CPU-load problems like IDE. Btw., since most machines these days are PCI anyway, you can always recommend the SymBios controllers (formerly NCR) for a cheap solution. They aren't only cheap, but powerful, and FreeBSD ships with a well- working driver for them (...says Joerg, typing this on a machine with two 53c810's). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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