From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 14 08:08:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA15786 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 08:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (VOjO7n1v7FGWo3S4OLVQ8+br6MyTuCwJ@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA15780 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 08:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27417 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:08:42 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:08:42 +0100 (MET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199712141608.RAA27417@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI card to choose Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Huh? Adaptec give their drivers away with their hardware, just like > > everyone else. > > Not really. You have to buy them if you want drivers for anything but > hard-disks, ie; CD-ROM support. My Adaptecs (1542, 2940) came with those drivers (HD, CD-ROM, even for removable media such as MO drives) and a bunch of tools for partitioning, formatting and verifying drives, a simple CD audio player, and other stuff I never needed. Of course, the bulk versions of the adapters don't come with those drivers -- that's why they're called "bulk". Other vendors have driver-less bulk versions of their products, too, so this is not an Adaptec special. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)