From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 12:14:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA26375 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:14:59 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA26368 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:14:55 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? To: mycroft@ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:13:49 -0800 (PST) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503181419.JAA22722@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Charles M. Hannum" at Mar 18, 95 09:19:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 600 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > That (mis)information originated from Julian Elischer. Julian said > many moons ago that Adaptec's policy was such, and for a long time it > was touted as the reason for not having a 2x42 driver. You can find > this in your own mail archives. That was adaptec's policy at the time and I still have the documents from when I tried to get the information.. We STILL (I believe) can't get the code for their own interface, which is why we have the Linux developed one.... Adaptec did however have a softenning on some of their stances, which has made the present drivers possible. julian