Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:20:55 -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.4.00.9807232018500.18410-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723190320.27155A-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!). > > Yes, but sysinstall bugs will probably force you to do most of the > filesystem setup manually. See archives. &#@^! ... In what list? It hasn't hit the archives and I haven't seen anything yet. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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