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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:57:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807231856570.18410-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723084822.21616A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:

> 
>   I've just seen a RedHat 5.1 system with a such a controller, hang.  It
> doesn't seem the Linux DPT driver is very stable.  It seems easy to get
> into a situation where all processes accessing the disk, hang.  The
> FreeBSD DPT driver seems quite a bit more solid than that, although
> setting it up is more difficult.
> 

Not really anymore, apparently the 2.2.7 boot floppy now has the driver
built on it (yay!).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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