Subject: Re: RiscBSD News Server
To: Duncan Ferguson <d.ferguson@worc.ac.uk>
From: Ale Terlevich <A.I.Terlevich@durham.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/10/1997 14:25:03
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Duncan Ferguson wrote:
> But the SCSI drivers are (will be?) improving over time. Will the
> hardware be able to take the hammering i am sure the machine will get
> (ie the ethernet card, the scsi card, etc)?
>
If you mean by this that they'll steadily get faster, then I don't
think so. Once they start working on interrupts and using DMA, then
they'll get faster, but till then I don't think they'll change at all.
As they don't seem to have improved for over a year. I.e. since they were
first written. I assume they have a low priority.
iirc Mark mentioned that LKM versions of the drivers were imminent.
Maybe once this haoppens they will be developed further.
At the moment though, I'm putting off purchasing a large SCSI disk
untill the drivers become useable.
Ale.