From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 14 09:58:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA23105 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA23099 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13955 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:58:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA02306; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:58:47 -0700 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 10:58:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199712141758.KAA02306@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI card to choose Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hardware In-Reply-To: <199712141608.RAA27417@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <199712141608.RAA27417@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid 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. Mind didn't. Which version did you buy, cause the 1542B did *NOT* come with them by default, since you had to buy EZ-SCSI separately. :( (Although, back then Adaptec provided an 'upgrade' on their ftp site which was a simple lzh archive which would give you the newest versions of the software, which I use to read the CD on my 10MB RAMDISK that I create from a DOS boot floppy. :) > Of course, the bulk versions of the adapters don't come with > those drivers -- that's why they're called "bulk". This wasn't a 'bulk driver', but the 'standard' retail package for the card that I bought. You *can* buy the card with drivers, but as stated Adaptec charges more for the card with the drivers than w/out, hence proving the original assertion that Adaptec does indeed charge for their drivers. Nate