Re: SCSI in 1.6 ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan-Uwe Finck" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: SCSI in 1.6 ?


> Hi,
>
> just wanted to ask why SCSI is still in this bad shape in 1.6-BETAS ?

No one's taken responsibility

> There's a patch in GNATS for the Connect32, which is tested and brings
> the card to a stable polling mode, while the Cumana-II is still
> deactivated, although it runs quite well in polling mode.
> Yes, the kernel config file says, it doesn't work, but as I type I
> copy the whole /usr onto a fresh formatted and mounted SCSI disc.

grr, gnats sucks, I'm not sure who's the port-arm32-maintainer but I suspect
it might be just mark, so that it had been updated got missed.

> Thus the Cumana-II driver should be simply activated, and the patch
> from #13350 should be included, so people can try to install and use
> their SCSI devices.

is the patch still valid against -current?  (I've not tried to fight gnats
to extract the patch yet)

> Both drivers seem to be stable enough.

I hate to say it but the changes may make it into -current, but it's too
late to get pulled into 1.6, would probably make it into 1.6.1 though

Chris