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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Driver for Adaptec 274xT
Date: 12 Nov 1993 15:25:46 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2c09tq$mji@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <1993Nov9.163202.2387@chpc.org> <CGDFu3.477@tfs.com>
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Keywords: scsi adaptec driver

In article <CGDFu3.477@tfs.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@TFS.COM> wrote:
>
> I wrote most of the 386bsd(etc) SCSI drivers and I'd LOVE to write a driver
> for the 274x, but adaptec are keeping the interface secret
> you have to:
> 1/ Pay money
> 2/ sign non-disclosure..
>
> hmm another good company shoots itself in the foot (head?)

	Adaptec has long been a bizarre company.  They originally
	didn't offer ANY technical support at all, so many vendors
	were boycotting their products.  Then they did offer some,
	and many people felt that it was still kinda crappy.

	Now they're pulling this weird crap with their (supposedly alarmingly
	buggy) new controllers...

	It's enough to make me think that the 34F is the net controller
	to get.


						TOodlepiP!
						Marc 'em.

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