Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G

Samuel Flory (sflory@rackable.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:06:00 -0800


Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
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>>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,
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>Are we talking about the old or the new aic7xxx driver ?
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>If it's the new driver, it's breaking on WAY too many
>machines and I have no idea why it got ever merged...
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Well it might have had sometime to do with the way the old driver
tended to lockup under heavy load.

>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.
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Funny the reverse is true for me . It works for every system I have
access to.

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

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