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#! rnews 1504 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!jaxnet.jaxnet.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!rahul.net!a2i!dandelion.com!not-for-mail From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI diskIO Date: 24 Aug 1995 09:30:16 -0700 Organization: Dandelion Digital Lines: 13 Sender: lnz@dandelion.com Message-ID: <41i9eo$8vf@kelewan.dandelion.com> References: <417ee7$1kp@trauma.rn.com> <419qu5$r4q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <41fpji$g5a@overload.lbl.gov> <DDs7pM.KLA@ritz.mordor.com> <41g8re$11e@news.cloud9.net> <DDsDBK.45q@ritz.mordor.com> <41gpiq$3h7@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dandelion.com NNTP-Posting-User: root In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of 24 Aug 1995 02:53:14 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36243 comp.os.linux.hardware:14253 comp.os.linux.setup:18196 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5078 In article <41gpiq$3h7@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: I don't know whether Linux uses the same NCR driver code as BSD (I know the AIC 7770 code is mostly the same), but from my use on my dual P90 system, I haven't seen any problems with the BSD NCR driver whatsoever. I would recommend it highly. The Linux NCR 53c810 driver is not as advanced as the BSD driver, and its author (Drew Eckhardt) does not yet recommend it for production systems. Leonard