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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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.
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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