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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: No EISA support SVR4.2
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:55:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1F2wD.n0F@chinet.chi.il.us>
- References: <1993Jan20.144903.13264@zooid.guild.org> <C184oH.BDD@maxed.amg.com> <2B6221EB.123E@telly.on.ca>
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- In article <2B6221EB.123E@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >According to every Univel compatability list I've seen (including ones
- >produced before its release), support for EISA host adapters is
- >explicitly provided for UNIX V4.2 --- *by the vendor of the host board*.
- [...]
- >This has worked for years with the makers of intelligent serial boards.
- >You don't buy anyone's UNIX expecting it to have built-in drivers for
- >Digiboards or Equinox. IMO, in the interest of keeping bloat to a
- >minimum, basic UNIX should come with a minimum of hardware drivers
- >and let the rest ship with the peripherals.
-
- There's a difference between drivers for your primary SCSI adapter and
- a serial board. Not many people try to boot up from their serial
- board or perform the initial load of the operating system from a
- tape drive connected to it. If the board in question isn't supported
- by the unix vendor, how are you supposed to get a system running so
- that you can install the driver supplied by the vendor of the board?
- Ataptec and Ultrastor have compatibility modes, but what about
- the others?
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-