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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!hookup!news.interlog.com!io.org!nobody From: erics@io.org (Eric Siegerman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ultimate BSD PC Hardware Setup Date: 27 Sep 1995 04:26:10 -0400 Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <44b1r2$dn0@ionews.io.org> References: <43df2f$id@future.internexus.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <811439745.10029@kiss.demon.co.uk> <MICHAELV.95Sep18161642@mindbender.headcandy.com> <DF7vs9.1zL@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <MICHAELV.95Sep22231241@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: twirl.io.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: > > I called BusLogic, told > them what I was doing, and they immediately threw a free Technical > Reference Manual with complete programming specs for the BusLogic > controllers in the mail. I was impressed by their openness and > helpfulness. I've had equally good experiences with BusLogic. When I asked for a Tech Ref for my BT-747S, I didn't even have the excuse of working on a driver. Just "Could you please send me one?", without offering any explanation at all. No questions asked; no charge. Ditto when I needed a firmware downgrade (NEXTSTEP needed the old firmware version, my card had the new one). They sent me the chips free. > So, the question isn't "why *not* buy Adaptec?" It finally comes down > to "considering the other options, *why* *buy* Adaptec?" I can't > think of a single reason. One comes to mind, but it has nothing to do with Unix: compatibility with weird devices under DOS. We have a SCSI scanner at work whose Windows driver was incompatible with BusLogic's ASPI driver (this may since have been fixed; there's been no reason to look into it). We ended up having to put an Adaptec card into the machine to talk to the thing. -- | | /\ Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. erics@io.org |-_|/ > ...that foreign country, the future, whither we are all | | / willy-nilly being deported... - John Brunner