From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Szepe Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:40:58 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021228134058.GC13814@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <200212210012.gBL0Cng21338@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> <176730000.1040430221@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <3E03BB0D.5070605@rackable.com> <20021228091608.GA13814@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Samuel Flory , "Justin T. Gibbs" , Janet Morgan , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox [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