From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 16 15:22:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA01268 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA01030; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03485; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:17:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Stefan Esser cc: conta@alpo.casc.com (Alex Conta), freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 PCI-SCSI on Compaq ProLinea 5100 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 21:20:08 +0200." <199607161920.VAA00899@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 18:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3481.837555465@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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