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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)
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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