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From: rps@gabriel.mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: AHA 2742/2842 cards *will* be supported in 2.0BETA (and -current)
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Date: 25 Nov 1994 15:22:52 GMT
Organization: Dep. de Matematica da Univ. de Coimbra
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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 ? :)
> Thanks to Justin Gibbs of the FreeBSD Project for his work
> on this driver!
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