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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!cks.ssd.k12.wa.us!netnews1.nwnet.net!alfa02.medio.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ReelMagic/VideoBlaster drivers for FreeBSD 2.0? Date: 8 May 1995 11:46:12 -0700 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3olotk$ijs@crl.crl.com> References: <3jbies$b5k@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <hastyD5HCF1.LoE@netcom.com> <3ki975$fqi@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com In article <3ki975$fqi@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <hastyD5HCF1.LoE@netcom.com>, >Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >>I was willing to write a driver for the ReelMagic however the company >>refused to release source necessary to write the driver. They want >>to keep the sources close to their company :( > >No big loss folks, trust me. I've evaluated one of these cards and it's >now sitting in a trash pile somewhere - next time I run across it, >I'm throwing it in the nearest dumpster. My experience with the quality of >the card, the company's tech support (I worked for 2 months to finally >get word that the stupid card only works with TWO different kinds of >CDROM drives, neither one of which I've ever heard of :-). If you've got >a nice hot-shot SCSI system with a decent graphics card, forget it - this >card doesn't like your system at all and you can waste your money in far >more amusing ways. > >Just my humble opinion, of course! :-) > > Jordan I have one of the ReelMagic/SCSI cards and it works with the SCSI Cdrom & adapter ezscsi drivers; it has the Adaptec 6360 Slow SCSI chip on the board. gary :-)