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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!infeed1.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!143.183.152.24!scnews.sc.intel.com!itnews.sc.intel.com!news.fm.intel.com!news.or.intel.com!chnews!jreynold From: jreynold@sedona.intel.com (John Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Is support of Adaptec 152x truely flakey? Date: 16 Jul 1997 16:31:04 GMT Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ Lines: 51 Distribution: world Message-ID: <slrn5sptq8.dpb.jreynold@hip186.ch.intel.com> Reply-To: jreynold@sedona.intel.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hip186.ch.intel.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.1 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44553 Hello, I've been running with an Adaptec 1522a card hooked to my scsi cdrom for about a year now, and just recently purchased a nice big scsi drive. As I went through the install procedure for 2.2.1, everything went fine, the kernel found the new scsi disk, partition and disklabel went off without a hitch. Newfs went off without a hitch, but when it started installing all the source and binaries, etc. I kept getting panic after panic after panic. On try #3, I just went to sleep :( ... One of the panics said: panic: panicing for historical reasons (if anyone knows what the hell that particular message means). Two days ago, I think it was J"org who said, in the hackers-digest, that the driver for the 152x cards was a "festing hunk of ----" (paraphrasing :), and that it was unusable at best. Someone also said that the 152x support is going away off the official "supported" list soon because of this. I thought this was strange because I'd used the scsi cdrom for a year+, but, I can't think of anything else that would cause these panics during install except for a flakey scsi driver (I've been running FreeBSD for almost two years now on the same hardware, and my new scsi drive is the only piece of "new" hardware in the system). I'm sure the card was under much more "load" reading from and writing to scsi devices ... which could bring about this alledged unstability ... Can anyone please elaborate on the real "quality" of the 152x support? If it ain't gonna happen, then I am perfectly willing to get a new card. I searched the web this morning and found a reasonably priced BusLogic 545C card. The fbsd web site says this card is "supported" too, but seeing that it says the 152x is "supported" my obvious question is "really? How well is it supported?" Does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonably priced ISA scsi-2 controller, or does anyone have any experience with the 545C card? What about experiences with the Adaptec AH-2742/2842 series cards--those are allegedly on the "supported" list as well.... Thanks alot! -Jr ps: please reply via e-mail if possible. Thanks! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds Performance & Logic Verification Group | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.intel.com http://www-adcs.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=