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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!usenet From: se@parc03.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Speccing a FreeBSD box Date: 13 Feb 1995 01:33:50 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3hmctu$h3o@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <D3q71E.64v@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hh7bl$9qs@idiom.com> <3hhpqd$ae8@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> <3hm10n$76d@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: parc03.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <3hm10n$76d@idiom.com>, muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) writes: |> I'm sure 1.1 will correct all, but NetBSD 1.0's driver for the |> 53c810 is both slow and buggy. It'll work okay most of the time, |> but under reasonable load I was getting almost a panic per day. Could you please send details on the problems you had. (Just in case you still have some logfiles or other suitable information.) We can't fix a problem in the driver, if we never hear about it. If we lear about it, it's generally fixed within a few days ... (at least if we have any chance to reproduce the fault). The NCR driver seems to work very well for a number of people who sent success reports (and benchmark results: Thanks a lot !). (Available on request ...) Those benchmark results indicate, that the driver in fact isn't "slow". (FreeBSD-2.0 had some file system optimisations that were missing from NetBSD-1.0, but both -current systems should be the same.) It is used on a number of highly loaded systems without the kind of problems you talk about. |> Don't be afriad to make recomendataions in the release notes. It would |> have saved me a lot of time had I known that the 53c810 doesn't work |> well with NetBSD-1.0 or that the 3c509 doesn't work well with FreeBSD-2.0. Hmm, I know the NCR driver works well for a lot of people. And if it didn't work for you, then we really would have appreciated a bug report! Regards, -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706019 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln