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Re: Impressions from the user-side

Fine, let's quibble - tho hopefully only for a moment.

>From here it -seems- to matter how you look at it.

Linux 1.2.0 has a 53c7,8xx.c (linux native) but no ncr53c8xx.c (from
FreeBSD).

That's not to say that FreeBSD didn't get its first '810 driver before
linux got its first '810 driver.

I had originally concluded this not because I checked in an old linux
kernel, but because I ran across an old message in the archives saying
there were problems with the linux '810 driver, but that this soon might
be fixed by a port of the FreeBSD driver.

Odds are, both drivers have their strengths - else they probably
wouldn't both be in the kernel for long.

Chris Fearnley wrote:
> 
> 'Dan Stromberg wrote:'
> >
> >5) The default boot??00.bin floppy should probably have ncr53c810
> >support, rather than ncr53c406 support.  ncr53c406 is under "other" in the
> >scsi how-to.  The '810 is a recommended buy in the howto.  Note that there
> >are -three- ncr drivers, two for the '810, and one for the '406.  Between
> >the two '810 drivers, the one ported from freebsd is probably preferable,
> >tho I do not have any experience with either.  I conclude this only
> >because the freebsd driver was ported because the other had limitations.
> 
> No, I believe the BSD driver came first.  The Linux version is an
> attempt to rewrite it from scratch.  I believe the BSD version
> supports more hardware, but does so in a buggier fashion.  I get tons
> of error messages each night when the tape backs up with the BSD
> ported driver.  I just recompiled with the Linux-from-scratch driver
> and so far things are better.  But I won't be fully satisfied for a
> month or so ...
> 
> --
> Christopher J. Fearnley            |    Linux/Internet Consulting
> cjf@netaxs.com, cjf@onit.net       |    UNIX SIG Leader at PACS
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf         |    (Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
> ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf    |    Design Science Revolutionary
> "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller |    Explorer in Universe


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