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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec licensing
Date: 11 Sep 1995 04:22:16 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com's message of 10 Sep 1995 21:16:28 GMT
In article <MICHAELV.95Sep10141629@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
In article <42vdh1$dca@hops.entertain.com> dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) writes:
I also hear that BSDi is going to start offering support for >174x
controllers. 174x (EISA) controllers are getting difficult to find, so I
suspect you are right; they are not being made anymore. :(
BusLogic BT747 controllers are still widely available and being
manufactured. They are every bit the equal of the 1742. What is this
siren song that causes people to lemming-like insist on Adaptec
products in spite of themselves?
(Hate following up to my own posts, but...) Incidentally, you can
find out all the BusLogic info from www.buslogic.com.
The nice thing about BusLogic controllers is that all of them use the
same programming interface, so one BusLogic driver (well written)
should work for the entire line. And, they make a SCSI controller for
every PC bus (ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA, PCI), most in normal and wide SCSI.
My BT747s has been performing absolutely wonderfully in my EISA-bus
NetBSD machine for almost a year and a half.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4, PC532,
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