Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:17:45 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Esser <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Cc: conta@alpo.casc.com (Alex Conta), freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 Message-ID: <3481.837555465@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:20:08 %2B0200." <199607161920.VAA00899@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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Stefan Esser wrote in message ID <199607161920.VAA00899@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>: > Compaq caused lots of problems because of > their knowingly ignoring the PCI specs. > I once got a reply that it wouldn't matter, > since the BIOS and their drivers worked > around the problems introduced this way. > But what they didn't care about was, that > the required workaround might break support > for other systems. They don't bother, since > they know their drivers are only used with > their machines. But we hardly want to have > a special FreeBSD version just for Compaq > machines ... :) Which is (IMNSHO) is *EXTREMELY* shortshighted of ANY company ... how many ``high end'' OS's rely on the crappy PC bios for I/O? I'm not meaning the M$ stuff, I'm meaning the true UN*X stuff (e.g. Solaris, SCO, FreeBSD. Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said UN*X :-) ). It basically means that Compaq hardware is limited to running M$ stuff, which is cutting out other people from the game ... has Compaq been bought out by M$, perhaps? :) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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