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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec 2940. broken. details inside
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:07:33 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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:In article <5mj83f$1dg$5@otis.netspace.net.au>,
:Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au> wrote:
:>Steven Bjork (sbjork@filoli.com) wrote:
:>
:>: Now, I'm curious why many freebsd folks claim to not have
:>: seen this 2940 problem, since it seems to be completely
:>: hardware related. If freebsd has a workaround in their
:>: driver, please share the wealth!
:>
:>So you haven't heard of the 2.1.7.1 update that fixes this exact problem?
:>
:>We never actually tried this because we had already changed to Solaris
:>x86, to stop our newsserver from crashing.
:>
:>--
:>-- mark heath | base 64 SPAMMED to avoid signature
:>:wq
We've been running several very heavily loaded servers for months
with 2940's without any problems. Each machine has only one
2940, so I dunno in regards to potential destabilization when
you have more then one, but it's rock solid for us. PPro 200's
running FreeBSD 2.1.7.x (whatever the last 2.1.7 release was).
Around 15 machines, each with four or five UW seacrates in
them. Three of those machines run under very heavy disk loads
(i.e. news boxes).
We have had problems with quantums, but those were firmware
bugs in the quantums and, supposedly, fixed by quantum. I've
gotten so tired of having to deal with disk drives with broken
firmware that I just use seagates now.
-Matt