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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Install problem: cmd/data port full
Date: 06 Mar 1994 19:49:45 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 6 Mar 1994 00:28:46 GMT


In article <2lb83u$5u0@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu
(Nate Williams) writes:

   Based on comments Julian has made, the code in FreeBSD 1.1 is alot
   newer than any publically available SCSI code in NetBSD (either 0.9
   or -current)

   Stick with FreeBSD.

I think you're being a bit childish, Nate.  Certainly the `new' SCSI
code I got from Julian (the same code which went into FreeBSD) was
*quite* buggy.  Among other things, it didn't work on the UltraStor
board I have *at all*.  Perhaps the later patches (many of which
originally came from me) have fixed the problems, but there has been
no real impetus for us to switch to the other code, as the known bugs
in the current code have been fixed.

In the fullness of time, we will be updating the SCSI code in the i386
port, but there are many other things of higher priority.


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- Charles Hannum
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