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Re: Adaptec 7xxx info?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juergen Gaertner)
Mon Mar 20 09:41:35 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:57:54 +0100 (MET)
From: Juergen Gaertner <Juergen.Gaertner@mbox.si.uni-hannover.de>
To: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>
Cc: Linda Walsh <law@sgi.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> > Doug Ledford wrote:
> > > Those docs are available under NDA from Adaptec, they aren't up on the web
> > > site for general download.
> > ---
> > Sigh. It's been out for years. What advantage is it to the
> > manufacturer to not release it for general consumption/usage/benefit
> > so anyone can look at and/or try to understand and/or write drivers?
>
> But the good news is that you have to pry a response out of them as well.
> Oh, not to mention the complete unavailability of docs for obsolete
> controllers.
Same thing applies for Westren Digital cards. Does anybody know if aix7xxx
isn't the precessor of the wd7193,7197,7296-cards? If so, it would be
intersting for me to see some hardware-docs.
Gärti
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