Subject: Re: Future hardware concerns
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/24/1996 23:01:23
On Mon, 20 May 1996 09:40:57 -0700 
 Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:

> If you never had problems with it, the reason is probably that your
> disk drives weren't tickling the bug.   It's unfortunately not very
> interesting when somebody reports that they're not having trouble with
> a piece of hardware with which other people are having trouble - all
> it really means is that you're lucky, not that the driver's reliable.

Exactly.

> 
> David Brownlee apparently *was* having trouble with the old driver and
> is not having trouble with the new, though, which is encouraging.
> When I install 1.2 on my production server, I'll see if the Adaptec
> controller works any better for me...
> 
This too was my experience. FWIW.

Neil
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