Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:00:04 +0300 From: Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ntvi.ru> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBackup client for FreeBSD Message-ID: <39EAC394.1DA3F2BC@ntvi.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010142303430.38814-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > Probably because nobody knew about it. ;) We're always happy to > > list vendors. > OK, then sligthly unrelated : AMI (www.ami.com) had put FreeBSD in the list of OSes that have drivers for MegaRAID Elite 1600. Again - no reference to AMI on FreeBSD pages, while list of new supported controllers grows. Same story with former Mylex (now Adaptec) Accell/eXtreme RAIDs. Bottom line - efforts invested in driver development are not adequately promoted :-) The implication is really unfair - while there is a number of companies building extremely successfull FreeBSD-based products (just few to mention - iMimic, F5 Networks), rest of the world is confused by misleading lack information on new h/w support. > > I'm going to actually _test_ this support out as soon as they send me > my evaluation demo for NetBackup BusinessServer 3.4. I wish it didn't > cost $1500 (should I choose to buy it), but it was about the only > thing I could find with both FreeBSD and NT support. If I don't have > to call their tech-support to get the FreeBSD client working on all > most likely you'll have to call them - and be prepared for a delay since they have very few customers with FreeBSD clients. Yet it works perfectly - I know several installations with 3.x, though not sure about 2.2.8. And you can consider talking to tech support as good investment - they do record all transactions, so next request will be smoother :-), not to mention that it will increase tech.support awareness of FreeBSD. > three of my 2.2.8, 3.5, and 4.1.1 boxen, I'll give it a hearty > recommendation. :-) > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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