>Justin T. Gibbs writes:
>> It wouldn't surprise me if the NetBSD driver didn't handle Ultra as well
>> as the FreeBSD driver since it is a fairly old version of my work.  Now
>> that things have started to stabilize again in the FreeBSD driver, I plan
>> to renew my efforts of porting it back to NetBSD.
>
>Well, I have FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP on a disk which I just plugged into
>the system and booted it up. Just as with NetBSD, it wrote the disklabel
>just fine, and started up the newfs. But after it got a ways through it,
>the system paused (for a shorter time than NetBSD did) then started
>putting out messages similar to those I saw on NetBSD.
>
>Are there maybe updates to aic7xxx.c since the 3.0-970209-SNAP?

That is an ancient version of the driver.  In truth, the FreeBSD version
of the driver has been unstable until very recently.  That was the reason
I put off the port to NetBSD.  You should try installing the latest 2.2
snapshot from ftp://releng22.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/.

>Here's the messages printed by FreeBSD 3.0:
>
>    sd0: timed out in dataout phase, SCSISIGI == 0x4
>    SEQADDR == 0x5e

Known, and I believe fixed, bugs.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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