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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI-2 Bus Hangs
Date: 19 Jan 1996 22:21:49 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) writes:

> Wouldn't it be better to treat all adapters the same way? Of course
> the adapter-driver should be responsible for 'getting the message out',
> but everything beyond that is scsi-adapter independent. 

Well, yes, but i'm afraid this would require a rewrite of the entire
SCSI subsystem.  I don't know somebody who's keen about this. :)
(Never change a running system. -- The current one does at least run
good enough to allow wcarchive serving several dozens of gigabytes...)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)