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Re: Anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft?

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From: jasee
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:34
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Nick Kew wrote:
> In article <c22vjg$f23$1@sparta.btinternet.com>,
> "jasee" <jasee@btinternet.com> writes:
>
>> It didn't occured to them that Red Hat in a commercial version
>> (possibly one of the most well known versions of Linux) wouldn't
>> support Adaptec (or rather vice versa).
>
> Pardon?  Adaptec has been well-supported for many years,
> going right back to the old pre-plug&play ISA devices.
> Where's the problem?
>
> [ note followups ]
Changed to include demon.tec.pc

I know generally about Adaptec and Linux, however this late commercial
version of Red Hat was only supported by Adaptec with an alfa driver for
this new raid card, the main purpose of which being to ensure reliable disk
redundancy, which obviously wouldn't have been a suitable solution
The problem was this card


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From: "jasee" <jasee@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft?
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