From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 01:13:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F2E16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:13:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cvs.openbsd.org (cvs.openbsd.org [199.185.137.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FAC443D39 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:13:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org) Received: from cvs.openbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cvs.openbsd.org (8.13.3/8.12.1) with ESMTP id j2L1DtiT025008; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:13:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200503210113.j2L1DtiT025008@cvs.openbsd.org> To: misc@cvs.openbsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:13:55 -0700 From: Theo de Raadt Subject: Adaptec Information I have received X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:13:35 -0000 I have received information from a few sources that indicates that Adaptec does not have documentation on their management interface in-house. They only have a source-code implimentation, for a variety of models. So that is perhaps why they are so slow. That does however speak rather badly. I have not encountered a vendor without even internal documentation for their products in quite a while. Companies you've probably rarely heard of like Zydas, Atmel, Symbol have documentation for their wireless chipsets. The Adaptec SCSI chipset documentation that we dragged out of Adaptec about 8 years ago or so was 12 books. I hope this is not true. Any ex-Adaptec employees want to set the record straight (and please tell the truth..)