advansys scsi == ouch

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 28 August 2004 23:07, John McBride wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Friday 27 August 2004 23:02, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:27, John McBride wrote:
>>>>What was
>>>>advansys thinking when they dropped the ball on kernel 2.6?
>>>>(rhetorical question).
>>>
>>>Maybe something like 'an operating system that changes the driver
>>>api's yearly will never catch on'?
>>
>>Probably not.  But I find it strange that no one has pointed out
>> that advansys themselves have been no more for what, 5 years now? 
>> To expect a company to support their product 5 years after their
>> demise in the inevitable silicon valley money laundering is a bit
>> unrealistic.
>
>Well I did mention they have been sold twice in four years. They
>currently go by the name of "initio.com", which has the drivers
>available for download and the cards for sale online.

I was aware of that last sale that you quoted, but the last time I 
tried to access the site, prolly at least 6 months ago, it wasn't 
even a registered name.  But I see it appears to be active now, and I 
grabbed a copy of what I think is the same 3.3g version that was in 
the kernel a couple of years ago.  So basicly, the kernel included 
version is slightly newer.

I have an ABP-940U, and AFAIAC, its a great card.  They did everything 
right hardware wise.  But that driver is a bowl of spagetti!  Now if 
I could just find a decently priced tape drive to replace all the 
seagate changers in various states of mostly worn out I have laying 
around here,  I'd go back to running amanda every night again.

>---
>John
>
>PS: interesting bit about the technical superiority. I bet there are
>some amazing stories about PCI and ISA bus nightmares floating
> around in the hardware circles.

No doubt.  I have a few more of them myself that I won't bore the list 
with.  Not all were nightmares though. :-)
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