On Sunday, September 23, 2001, at 03:51  pm, Hauke Fath wrote:

> trying to upgrade a Macintosh IIsi to 1.5.2, I saw that the newest patch
> release only ships with one kernel. The IIsi has an old DEC DSP3107LS 
> 1GB
> harddisk, and while the GENERIC 1.5.2 kernel booted up fine, I found it
> impossible to unpack the binary tarballs without data corruption. 
> Building
> an sbc kernel fixed that.
>
> In fact, most or the disks I have used have at some point had problems 
> with
> the ncrscsi driver. On the other hand, I do not recall any harddisk
> problems with sbc.
>
> Now, I have enough machines around for "just building a customized 
> kernel",
> but others don't. Given how many times people with disk-related problems
> have been pointed to SBC kernels by list members, I strongly doubt 
> shipping
> only a kernel with the ncrscsi driver is a wise move.
>
> Comments? If I see none, I shall send-pr the issue.

I'd second that, and I wondered this myself, as I've been installing on 
a disk which requires an SBC kernel.

It has, if I remember correctly, been like this since 1.5.1, and if 
there is no good reason for it, probably ought to be changed.

All the best.

~ Matthew