From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Flory Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:06:00 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E10B538.3020408@rackable.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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Tomas Szepe , Marcelo Tosatti , "Justin T. Gibbs" , Janet Morgan , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox 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