On Oct 17, 12:28pm, Jon Coppeard wrote:
> Subject: Status of Cumana SCSI drivers?
> Hello
>
> I have recently started using RiscBSD from a SCSI drive, using my Cumana
> SCSI 2 card, and have found disk access to be very slow (approx half the
> speed of the IDE drive I was using before). I was wondering if this is my
> fault or that of the scsi drivers, which I have seen refered as slow
> before.  If so, are there any plans to upgrade them in the future?
>
> Also, running X is very unstable - it often crashes if I have more than
> one xterm open, or just play around.  I'm using the 1.1-beta release from
> the ftp site, without the upgrades I have seen on there.  I shall try this
> next.

The 1.1 version of X is unstable. The only fix is to upgrade your entire system
to 1.2. Judging by the number of bug reports I am currently receiving for the
two versions either

a) The 1.2 version is much more stable

or

b) Nobody is using the 1.2 version

Cheers

Rob

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