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From: sbjork@filoli.com (Steven Bjork)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec 2940. broken. details inside
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:54:15 -0700
Organization: Filoli Information Systems
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In article <5n43s5$t2c$1@flea.best.net>,
Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote:

(in response to my somewhat whiney 2940 post:)

>    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).

Thanks, Matt! I'll give that rev a try.

../Steven
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