[8422] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptec 7xxx info?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Mar 20 09:55:23 2000
To: law@sgi.com (Linda Walsh)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:43:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dledford@redhat.com (Doug Ledford), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <38D5ADD0.6C8F5A26@sgi.com> from "Linda Walsh" at Mar 19, 2000 08:49:20 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> 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?
You are assuming Adaptec get it, which isn't the case. They still refuse
to release docs on their raid controllers to anyone to write open source
drivers.
Symbios boards are cheaper too ;)
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