Status of Ultra320 on 4.8-RELEASE

[Tom Munro Glass]

Thanks for this news Justin. I've been reading a thread which is only 3 weeks 
old at:

http://news.gw.com/freebsd.aic7xxx/749 

and this talks about problems with a SuperMicro X5SS8-GM mobo and Maxtor Atlas 
drives. I was considering buying exactly that combination until I read this 
thread! Do you happen to know if this combination of hardware will work, or 
can you recommend drives which are known to have worked reliably?

Thanks,

Tom Munro Glass


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:23, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> --
> Justin