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Subject: Re: Initio SCSI driver
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071311390.2557-100000@localhost> from Blaz Zupan at "Dec 7, 1999 01:13:54 pm"
To: blaz@amis.net (Blaz Zupan)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:11:19 -0700 (MST)
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From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
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Blaz Zupan wrote...
> Is there any particular reason why the Initio SCSI driver (available at
> http://www.initio.com/drivers/BSD3sourc91xx.zip) is not part of the
> FreeBSD source tree?
> 
> I was contemplating buying this SCSI host adapter instead of an Adaptec
> 2940UW, but I fear that there will be problems in the future (for example
> late or no support for FBSD 4.0+).
> 
> The license seems ok and the driver seems to be cam-ified.

As David O'Brien mentioned, it's best to ask on the SCSI list about SCSI
stuff.

In any case, the license on the driver for their Ultra-Wide controllers has
not always been a BSD-style license.  It used to have one file with a
BSD-style license, one file with a proprietary license, and one file with
no license.

Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de> has been working on getting both
of Initio's drivers into FreeBSD.  This may explain why Initio has fixed
the copyright on their Ultra-Wide driver.  (Their Ultra2 driver never had a
copyright problem.)  You may want to contact Thomas and see how things are
going.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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