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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 26 Mar 1996 11:39:42 -0500 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 26 Sender: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU Message-ID: <el268brzu41.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <VLADIMIR.96Mar24114958@Burner.dsg.stanford.edu> <el2n356i0ht.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> <VLADIMIR.96Mar24184550@Burner.dsg.stanford.edu> <4j6sud$fe0@kelewan.dandelion.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.57/Emacs 19.30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13647 comp.os.linux.development.system:19976 comp.os.linux.x:27575 comp.os.linux.hardware:34308 comp.os.linux.setup:47149 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:287 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2775 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2551 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15979 In article <4j6sud$fe0@kelewan.dandelion.com> "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> writes: It's only the FlashPoint for which the documentation is not available. As you've even mentioned yourself, the MultiMaster documentation hasn't been updated for the Ultra series, either. That you've managed to get some special support arrangement with BusLogic doesn't really interest me. To a certain degree, I can understand their not wanting to provide that level of information. You are essentially programming their SCSI controller chip at a very low level, and I suspect that chip level documentation might well not provide the nuances of how you are supposed to do certain things properly. This could easily be a support nightmare. I hope they haven't actually offered that as an excuse. Adaptec, AMD, Emulex, NCR and Western Digital all supply this information. In fact, I looked at an old BusLogic 542B, and it has an Emulex FAS-216, which BusLogic themselves no doubt learned how to program from a readily available manual. I just don't see other companies having a support problem. It's sort of like blaming Intel because Windows crashes, and it makes about as much sense.