Re: current status of AHC driver for 7899G

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

I recall that the issues that are being seen are on really old chipsets like
1540 and 2940.
I run a bunch of boxes with Adaptec SCSI controllers (7890 and up) without
problems.
The old issues should be resolved as of 3.2.

/marco
PS: This is all on  top of my head, YMMV.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.D. Bronson" <lists@xpec.com>
To: "Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>; <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 17:20
Subject: Re: current status of AHC driver for 7899G


> At 05:05 PM 12/1/2002, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> >I beat the living snot out of a 7899G with 20 drives and it worked just
> >fine.
> >Search the archives for my email on this.
> >
> >/marco
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "J.D. Bronson" <lists@xpec.com>
> >To: <misc@openbsd.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 17:00
> >Subject: current status of AHC driver for 7899G
> >
> >
> > > I have read the archives and noticed even in the i386 hardware list
that
> > > there  seems to be an issue with this card.
> > >
> > > I have the adaptec 39160 that uses the 7899G and I want to run 1
single
> > > scsi drive PER channel.
> > >
> > > What is the status of this driver? (ahc) has it been updated and
merged
> > > into 3.2 or do I need to grab a snapshot?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
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> Marco - thanks. I did see all of your posts...but there is still a basic
> issue missing.
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> at what point is/was this addressed?
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> If 3.2 contains a driver that DOES work well, then why is it still being
> listed as an issue.......
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> I am just trying to get to a solid answer ;)
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> I have seen what seems to be a lockup that could be caused by this driver
> (in the posts) and that concerns me ....
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> thanks so far for the help ;)
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