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Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] New Adaptec's VLB adaptor support?
Message-ID: <2kvusq$3io@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:43:54 GMT
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In article <hastyCLAEsx.ExH@netcom.com>,
Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>I am wondering if anyone has any experience with the new VLB adaptor
>and also if it increases the disk performance?

If it's the 2xxx series of boards, it will probably not ever be support
by any of the free operating system, though I've heard rumors of someone
working on it.

The problem with the work in progress is that Adaptec can change their
chip internally which would break any existing drivers which use the
low-level code, and you have to sign a NDA for the high-level code.


Nate
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