Subject: Re: AHC driver + 1.2.1 + UW drive
To: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/22/1997 15:53:23
>Justin T. Gibbs writes:
>> >
>> >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/.
>
>I was unable to reach releng22.FreeBSD.org (or any other thing in
>freebsd.org - DNS was refusing to recognize them for awhile; now I can
>get the address of releng22, but can't ping it), so I installed
>2.2.1-RELEASE from ftp.cdrom.com and tried newfs, the problem
>persisted. Here's the revision of aic7xxx.c that's in 2.2.1:

2.2.1 has an old version of the driver too.  Jordan just finished copying
the latest snap to ftp.cdrom.com, so you should try to install that.

> *      $Id: aic7xxx.c,v 1.81.2.17 1997/03/24 19:17:33 gibbs Exp $
>
>Is this as new as what's on releng22.freebsd.org (which I currently
>can't get)?

Nope.  The revision of interest was committed on 4/18/97.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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