Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:50:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jhs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sea driver - anyone porting from 2.2.8 to 3.?/current ? Message-ID: <199906061450.QAA74044@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199906061257.MAA06230@jhs.muc.de> from Julian Stacey at "Jun 6, 1999 12:57:49 pm"
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As Julian Stacey wrote ... > Anyone thought about porting the sea driver from 2.2.8 to 3.* ? > ( sea adapter is for Seagate ST01/ST02, Future Domain TMC-885, TMC-950 SCSI ) > > I upgraded a system from 2.2.8 to 3.2 only to find support for the controller > had been removed :-( Now wasting time going back to 2.2.8 ! IRRC it is in the README somewhere.. > If customers or users of other OS's had been watching, they would have had a > good laugh at FreeBSD; It's hard to convince people: > "FreeBSD is nice, you should try it" > when a valid response is > "No Thanks - Maybe they'll feel free to abandon my hardware too" Just like any commercial vendor will do BTW. > I guess SEA was deleted in the move to CAM, but that's not a justification, > just a temporary excuse, & 2.2.8 to 3.2 is beyond temporary ! My guess is that Ken & Justin did not pull the sea driver into CAM because they A. did not have the hardware and B. think the hardware is not worth the time to do so anyway. | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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