On Sun, 19 May 1996, Ted Lemon wrote:

> >   What sort of problems should I expect to have with the Adaptec?  My
> > Adaptec 1542 has treated me so well that I hate to leave Adaptec.
> > Just to make certain, there is no way to use the 1542 in this Pentium
> > machine with more than 16M?
> 
> My Adaptec controller, which is a 2940, has a tendency to lock my
> system up during periods of intense I/O.   For example, the nightly
> file system checks.   I would expect the 2940W to behave the same way
> - I believe the chipset is identical.
> 
	I also had a fileserver running with a 2940 (& two SCSI-2 disks).
	For about a month my system had a mean uptime of under five days,
	then I changed to Noriyuki Soda's <soda@sra.co.jp> port of the
	FreeBSD driver (apologies for being unable to recall the FreeBSD
	author :), and the machine has been rock solid since. (Until
	friday when a disk failed, but thats just my luck.
	
	I'm pretty sure the driver has been pulled into -current, (though
	with a small teething problem :), so you should see it in 1.2...

		YMMV (but mine was good :)

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