On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:32:13 +0100 Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry for not responding back in Jan. I have a hard time recommending > > the 29320/39320 cards because of the long history they have with > > incompatibilities with certain U320 drives. I don't think that the > > Out of interest, what cards would you recommend ? I have just > started running 4 drives off a 29320, and it does the "dump" thing > on boot, so I was thinking of replacing it with another PCI-X card. > > > driver will be affected by memory size, but I haven't run it in several > > years, and it could have rotted like ahc apparently did (though I still > > have a hard time imagining how the rot could have taken place, hardly > > anything has changed in the driver over the years). > > I have a hard time beliving these don't work either - mainly because I > am running a 4GB system with ahc (and now ahd) in it and have had no > problems at all. Certainly Adaptec cards are so common that if there > was something majorly broken in that driver we would be seeing a lot > more reports of corruption surely ? > Maybe it's BIOS related? I have a new mobo from a different vendor where I could give it a try and see if the corruption goes away. --- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
