On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
> This problem seems to have decreased markedly in recent years, as the
> 2940 driver gets better, and the number of weird cards decreases. In 1996
> you would be lucky if your Adaptec card worked at all, and the specs would
> change every week. In 1997 you would probably make it work, but you would
> usually have to apply some kernel patch or another. In 1998 I would say
> that 85% of Adaptec cards and all the new ones will work without any
> particular efforts on the end user part. By 1999 I hope the entire
> problem has gone away.
For the most part, yes. However, don't plan on support for the U2W cards
just yet. It isn't implemented and it'll be another major upgrade to get
it implemented (it changes how we have to store the variables that control
synchronous data transfers in order to accomodate the greater number of
possible speeds).
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they should be everybody's.
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