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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!usenet From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ReelMagic/VideoBlaster drivers for FreeBSD 2.0? Date: 9 May 1995 06:05:18 GMT Organization: FreeBSD Hackers R Us Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3on0mu$lf9@news1.best.com> References: <3jbies$b5k@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <hastyD5HCF1.LoE@netcom.com> <3ki975$fqi@agate.berkeley.edu> <3olotk$ijs@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hasty.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:3olotk$ijs@crl.crl.com ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) wrote: >In article <3ki975$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 :-) > I now have an mpeg board boad which works a whole lot better with FreeBSD than the reel-magic :) Amancio