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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Support for AHA-2740/T SCSI Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 09:18:21 GMT Message-ID: <Ct2v6M.ow@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <CstyJ0.5AC@on.bell.ca> <2vup9e$787@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <michaelv.774166468@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <3048u8$i4t@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <michaelv.774233288@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <304r45$or@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 16 In <304r45$or@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) writes:>Out of curiosity, why do vendors do this? I knew about Diamond, and >can't figure this out. Who cares if someone knows how to program their >video cards? It's not like I could use that against them somehow. In Adaptec's case it was sort of used against them. BusLogic started to make clones of the popular AHA1542B SCSI hostadaptor that was somewhat cheaper, somewhat faster, and had much better support from the manufacturer than the original. Apparently, Adaptec thought the best way to fix their support problem was not to document the interface of the new controller generation. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org Home +49 721 606137 Work +49 228 445171 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus