Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G

Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:40:58 +0100

[riel@conectiva.com.br]
>
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
>
> > Marcelo, you've been overlooking these updates for a bit too long now
> > for your "let's throw them at -ac" to sound fair. IMHO of course. Also
> > remember those are both production drivers tested thoroughly in FreeBSD,
>
> Are we talking about the old or the new aic7xxx driver ?

The new one.

> If it's the new driver, it's breaking on WAY too many
> machines and I have no idea why it got ever merged...
>
> I have yet to see a machine where the new aic7xxx driver
> works. I'm sure they exist, but it doesn't work on any
> of the machines I have access to.

Oh? I'm surprised to hear that, because the Gibbs driver
1) works well for all the Adaptecs I've got. :)
2) can drive certain chips the original driver can't
(2940U's for instance).

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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