Status of Ultra320 on 4.8-RELEASE

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> I've seen loads of messages in various FreeBSD mailing lists discussing 
> problems with U320 and the Adaptec 7902, and yet HARDWARE.TXT says this is 
> supported in 4.8-RELEASE.
> 
> Can someone please clarify the situation - is it possible to use U320 with 
> 4.8-RELEASE or is it safer to stick with U160 for now?

There have been several improvements to the aic79xx driver since 4.8-R.
The driver in -stable should work well so long as you are running with
good cables and the firmware on your drives is the latest offered by
the vendor.

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Justin