From owner-aic7xxx Mon Sep 14 07:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15332 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dledford.dialnet.net (dledford.dialnet.net [206.65.249.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA15327 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dledford@dialnet.net) Received: from dialnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dledford.dialnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA10616; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:59:24 -0500 Message-ID: <35FD2F4C.12D86140@dialnet.net> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:59:24 -0500 From: Doug Ledford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" CC: "Robert G. Brown" , aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bigot! (was Re: 7895 and 2.0.35 aic7xxx) References: <199809072120.PAA01761@narnia.plutotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > In my case, I DIDN'T install it. > > I don't care who installed what. I don't care about you political > views about MS, Intel, or even Adaptec. What I care about is having a > usable mailing list for discussing "open software" aic7xxx issues. > That is the charter of this list and those that continue to violate > it will be banned. > > BTW, I've never had to use an MS OS to "bootstrap" an aic7890 (or any > other Adaptec controller) into working with FreeBSD. There is certainly > an initialization problem in the Linux driver, but there is no conspiracy > behind it. Two init errors have been found and fixed in the pre10 driver version. It should work on Dell Poweredge 2300 servers without problem now. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message