Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jwt!john
From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Esix Rev D. FFS and/or SCSI -- beware
Message-ID: <2256@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 90 06:01:16 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.180148.1046@ingres.Ingres.COM> <1314@bilver.UUCP>
Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL
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In article <1990Nov5.180148.1046@ingres.Ingres.COM> seg@Ingres.COM (scott e garfinkle) writes:
>Just to warn prospective users of Esix.  First of all, their fast file
>system (the Rev. D apaptation of the Berkeley FFS) appears to be flaky.
>It will not work at all on my system.  On a friend's system (a normal RLL
>drive and 25 mHz board), it caused the loss of an entire (root) file
>system.

I haven't seen anyone on this thread point out that RLL is *not*
officially supported by ESIX.  The certified hardware compatibility
list does not include any RLL controllers.  As I understand it,
you're on your own running RLL with ESIX.  If it works, great; if it
doesn't, too bad.
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)