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From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G
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Rik van Riel wrote:

>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 ?
>
>If it's the new driver, it's breaking on WAY too many
>machines and I have no idea why it got ever merged...
>  
>

  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.
>
>  
>

  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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