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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:15990 comp.os.386bsd.development:1574 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!cs.umd.edu!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: aha2742. why no 386bsd driver soon. Message-ID: <CHs8J0.85r@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <BPRIEST.93Dec9091407@adr14.adrs1.dseg.ti.com> <2e7kch$41a@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <2e7oak$s8d@explorer.clark.net> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 19:23:24 GMT Lines: 29 In article <2e7oak$s8d@explorer.clark.net> ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) writes: >Hmmmm, I find this all very interesting. It appears that Adaptec is going down >the path that Diamond has chosen. Anyone think this might become a trend >among hardware vendors to attempt to edge out free OSs like *BSD and Linux? I doubt that Adaptec cares one way or another about linux or *BSD. Their official line (as far as linux is concerned) is that the boards are not supported under linux, which is probably due to the fact that they did not write the drivers. The same is undoubtably true for *BSD. I suspect that their real concern is other manufacturers that might want to make clone boards (such as BusLogic). Now in theory the clone manufacturers could request the information in order to make a clone board, but they would have to clone the HIM as well. Adaptec could of course then claim that the cloned HIM contained intellectual property belonging to Adaptec (a la BSDI/USL). Voila - a legal morass. Someone else recommended the Buslogic boards for *BSD and linux. I would agree that this is a very good choice. Their tech support is reputed to be very good, and they are quite forthcoming with technical information (such as on the native Buslogic mode for the board as opposed to the 1542 emulation mode). Linux supports some of the Ultrastor boards as well, and these are also worth examining. I do not know what the situation with Ultrastor and *BSD is. -Eric -- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."