Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the linux-support? dept.
subfarm writes "IBM is picking up Mylex for $240 million. Press release is here. " I hope IBM continues Linux support for the Mylex cards - from what I've been told, they worked extremely well under Linux. In fact, Mylex even has a Linux CD offer on their home page...
and then there were none
by
Chaostrophy
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· Score: 3
Well, Adaptec owns most of the SCSI card market, with the former NCR/Symbios having a bit, and Mylex/Buslogic having yet another chunk. I do wory about the fate of the cheap end of the Mylex line, IBM knows how to sell the super high end, but not the in a box on the store shelf stuff. Adaptec is stupid (hidden revs on the 2940 meant that at one point not even NT could install with out a suplimental driver disk, let alone Linux) and greedy (like not even ASPI[basic dos scsi drivers] for free if your driver disk went bad for free. Free drivers for every other OS under the sun, but not dos). And of course it took them for ever to get with Linux.
I do not like the looks of this. IBM is still rather dumb, how ever pro Linux they may be.
Anyone besides me hoping for something similar to SGI going on here? (If I were to wish for IRIX-Highend->Linux-Lowend vs. AIX-Highend->Linux-Lowend, I think I'd pick IBM before SGI, given the service I have seen both show thier users in the past).
Not to underplay the importance of OpenGL or anything, but it sure looks like thier is a chance they could be positioning themselfs for the same market... Unix from lowend desktop scaling smoothly up to industrial strength servers...
Ok, I am going back to sleep and continue to dream now...
I guess then that IBM is buying Buslogic, or what is left of Buslogic after Mylex moved them.
They used to be in the S.F. Bay area, and they had such great Linux support becuase they worked with Leonard Zuberoff (I might have spelled that wrong) who wrote the Linux drivers. Back when no other hardware manufacturer wanted to hear about Linux, Buslogic hardware people helped Leonard find problems in their hardware and our drivers, doing such things as connecting up SCSI analyzers and monitoring the bus while he debugged a driver in the presence of the hardware engineer who designed it. Leonard was then running "Dandelion Digital", a company that published Filksong CDs (science-fiction fan music), he now works for VA Research. I don't know if any of the Buslogic folks who helped us out in the early days are still there.
Send this to the marketing director: Dear Sir, I've noticed that you have been appending vowels to the beginning of a lot of words that don't strictly need said prefixes. I can only assume that you are a-Moron. e-Nough allready. i-Can't take it anymore. o-Nly brain damage can explain this. I doubt u-Bastards reallize how irritating this has become. y-MustYouDoThis? --Shoeboy
Re:and then there were none(IBM toplevel attitude)
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Anonymous Coward
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...from the contacts I have within big blue, Linux has seemed to reach strategic level with the result that the attitude has become: _everything_ must be ported to Linux. Most hardware*1 shall be certified to be able to run Linux. The attitude I've been seing is not one of "we kinda support it...sometimes" but rather, in management'ese, "an embracing of Linux as an important strategic platform". This is the reason why so much stuff (software) has been ported in so little time ( Visual Age, Web sphere etc.). Another indication of their commitment is that they are partnering with not only RedHat but also with SuSe, Caldera and Pacific HiTech. If they were doing it just to show that they weren't "missing the train" they probably would have chosen one partner. Big Blue is like a tanker...it takes a long time to change course - but when it does, nothing stops it in its way.
AdvanSys have been making decent SCSI controllers for a while. More importantly, they've been providing official GPLed drivers for Linux for years. I bought mine solely on the grounds of their Linux support (at the time, the Adaptec cards weren't well supported), and I've never regretted it. I'd recommend them to anyone.
-- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Re:Mylex/Buslogic Great Linux Support
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kzanol
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The CD was a (bootable) Redhat 5.2 Installation Cd with the Mylex driver included to ease installation on new systems.
Since the driver is now included in Redhat 6.0 (as well as a few other distributions) the cd is no longer required or usefull.
BTW, the driver for the mylex controllers is not yet part of the stanard linux kernel, it can be downloaded as a kernel patch from http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.ht ml.
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IBM and Yeast infections?
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GoodDoug
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Dang man, I thought IBM was going to stay out of feminine itching products, but now that they've bought Mycelex (the 3 day cure for yeast infections) what does this mean for the rest of us? I expect to see an ad with Kim Alexis selling us an RS/6000 along with other feminine products. Whats next? A joint Tampax/Adaptec venture with new USB enabled feminine hygiene products? What are the implications for plug and play with this stuff? It's all just so confusing!
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Well, Adaptec owns most of the SCSI card market, with the former NCR/Symbios having a bit, and Mylex/Buslogic having yet another chunk. I do wory about the fate of the cheap end of the Mylex line, IBM knows how to sell the super high end, but not the in a box on the store shelf stuff. Adaptec is stupid (hidden revs on the 2940 meant that at one point not even NT could install with out a suplimental driver disk, let alone Linux) and greedy (like not even ASPI[basic dos scsi drivers] for free if your driver disk went bad for free. Free drivers for every other OS under the sun, but not dos). And of course it took them for ever to get with Linux.
I do not like the looks of this. IBM is still rather dumb, how ever pro Linux they may be.
Plato seems wrong to me today
Not to underplay the importance of OpenGL or anything, but it sure looks like thier is a chance they could be positioning themselfs for the same market... Unix from lowend desktop scaling smoothly up to industrial strength servers...
Ok, I am going back to sleep and continue to dream now...
They used to be in the S.F. Bay area, and they had such great Linux support becuase they worked with Leonard Zuberoff (I might have spelled that wrong) who wrote the Linux drivers. Back when no other hardware manufacturer wanted to hear about Linux, Buslogic hardware people helped Leonard find problems in their hardware and our drivers, doing such things as connecting up SCSI analyzers and monitoring the bus while he debugged a driver in the presence of the hardware engineer who designed it. Leonard was then running "Dandelion Digital", a company that published Filksong CDs (science-fiction fan music), he now works for VA Research. I don't know if any of the Buslogic folks who helped us out in the early days are still there.
Thanks
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
Maybe if Mylex didn't proclaim themselves the eRaid company, IBM wouldn't have bought them.
I wish companies would eStop that already. It's eAnnoying.
Send this to the marketing director:
Dear Sir,
I've noticed that you have been appending vowels to the beginning of a lot of words that don't strictly need said prefixes. I can only assume that you are a-Moron. e-Nough allready. i-Can't take it anymore. o-Nly brain damage can explain this. I doubt u-Bastards reallize how irritating this has become. y-MustYouDoThis?
--Shoeboy
...from the contacts I have within big blue, Linux has seemed to reach strategic level with the result that the attitude has become: _everything_ must be ported to Linux. Most hardware*1 shall be certified to be able to run Linux. The attitude I've been seing is not one of "we kinda support it...sometimes" but rather, in management'ese, "an embracing of Linux as an important strategic platform". This is the reason why so much stuff (software) has been ported in so little time ( Visual Age, Web sphere etc.). Another indication of their commitment is that they are partnering with not only RedHat but also with SuSe, Caldera and Pacific HiTech. If they were doing it just to show that they weren't "missing the train" they probably would have chosen one partner.
Big Blue is like a tanker...it takes a long time to change course - but when it does, nothing stops it in its way.
*1: Netfinity servers, Thinkpad Laptops, Intellistation workstations, Commercial Desktops, RS6000 43P Models 150, 260, RS6000 F50.
AdvanSys have been making decent SCSI controllers for
a while. More importantly, they've been providing official
GPLed drivers for Linux for years. I bought mine
solely on the grounds of their Linux support (at the
time, the Adaptec cards weren't well supported), and
I've never regretted it. I'd recommend them to anyone.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
The CD was a (bootable) Redhat 5.2 Installation Cd with the Mylex driver included to ease installation on new systems.
Since the driver is now included in Redhat 6.0 (as well as a few other distributions) the cd is no longer required or usefull.
BTW, the driver for the mylex controllers is not yet part of the stanard linux kernel, it can be downloaded as a kernel patch from http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.ht ml.
you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect
Dang man, I thought IBM was going to stay out of feminine itching products, but now that they've bought Mycelex (the 3 day cure for yeast infections) what does this mean for the rest of us? I expect to see an ad with Kim Alexis selling us an RS/6000 along with other feminine products. Whats next? A joint Tampax/Adaptec venture with new USB enabled feminine hygiene products? What are the implications for plug and play with this stuff? It's all just so confusing!