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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: AHA 2742/2842 cards *will* be supported in 2.0BETA (and -current)
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Message-ID: <Czx867.ApG@luva.lb.bawue.de>
References: <JKH.94Nov17191446@freefall.cdrom.com> <3b4vgc$61f@gnu.mat.uc.pt>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 10:08:31 GMT
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In article <3b4vgc$61f@gnu.mat.uc.pt>,
Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <rps@mat.uc.pt> wrote:
>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 ? :)

No, you're asking the same questions I had reading the previous posting.

-Michael
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Michael Giegerich             | migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de
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