Esix Rev D. FFS and/or SCSI -- beware

[John Temples]

In article <1990Nov5.180148.1046 at ingres.Ingres.COM> seg at 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.
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