> Vendors will use their dollars (actually a percentage of your dollars ;))
> to write drivers when it makes commercial sense. Its up to the userbase
> to make it commercial sense.
>
> And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK
> suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of
>
> "I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor
> 4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller"
> "We dont do buslogic only adaptec"
> "Nothing else"
> "Sorry"
> [Click]
But to add to the paranoia
Adaptec are mentioned in thye list of people behind this idea.
they won't give away the spec
but they will write a driver for us ?
wouldn't it jsut be easier for them to open their spec up ??
*shrug*
> Alan
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