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. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
