advansys scsi == ouch

[John McBride]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:27, John McBride wrote:
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>>What was 
>>advansys thinking when they dropped the ball on kernel 2.6? (rhetorical 
>>question).
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>Maybe something like 'an operating system that changes the driver
>api's yearly will never catch on'?
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No, I'm using linux not windos...

Anyway I went through all kinds of sh*t trying to get updated drivers 
and firmware for my cardreader last year, it came with 98 drivers but 
they would not install or work on 2K, and the firmware was useless for 
linux, the vender took months to get the stuff to me. Works fine on 
linux now, but no way to update the firmware without windos. That was an 
awful experience.

This probably has more to do with advansys getting sold (then sold 
again) plus even their 2.4 driver had a few problems on some of our 
boxes (sometimes they would burst messages about "vtable" or "vpointer" 
errors into the logs).

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John