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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:15038 comp.os.386bsd.development:2773 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: AHA 2742/2842 cards *will* be supported in 2.0BETA (and -current) Date: 7 Dec 1994 02:41:29 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3c37cp$37d@news.cc.utah.edu> References: <JKH.94Nov17191446@freefall.cdrom.com> <3b4vgc$61f@gnu.mat.uc.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <3b4vgc$61f@gnu.mat.uc.pt> rps@mat.uc.pt writes: ] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote: ] > And it will support the Adaptec 27xx/28xx cards by default. Support ] > is already in -current, so current folk can use it as of this (Thursday) ] > morning. ] ] How did people got enough information to do the drivers ? ] - Did Adaptec changed its policy ? ] - Or did people found a work-around ? (I remember seing a post by ] someone explaining that the information that Adaptect didn't want to ] give was not strictly necessary) ] - Or did they reverse-engineered ? ] - Or shouldn't I be asking ? :) It uses GPL'ed sequencer code with some limitations (although performance is still very good -- it might get much better later) from the Linux driver project. The download and other code was newly written. No, I had nothing to do with this. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.