Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:52:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody know the OS in the Maxtor MAXAttach products? Message-ID: <20000927175250.A7553@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000928113852.G11123@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:38:52AM %2B1100 References: <mrcpu@internetcds.com> <87058.970096328@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000927162134.H9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <mrcpu@internetcds.com> <87058.970096328@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271530300.290-100000@apocalypse.cdsnet.net> <200009272253.e8RMr1A00542@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009271530300.290-100000@apocalypse.cdsnet.net> <20000928113852.G11123@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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* Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [000927 17:40] wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 15:31:47 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > One of the comments on the side is: > > > > "Caching file system with Soft Update technology". > > > > Sounds vaguely BSD'ish. Maybe even FreeBSD'ish. > > > > Just curious. > > Maxtor have done a storage box with a modified FreeBSD, including > Samba in the kernel. I don't know the name, but IIRC it's a small > purple box with a couple of IDE boxes. > > I've heard that, for reasons that don't directly relate to FreeBSD, > Maxtor isn't overly happy with the results, and that the next > generation box probably won't run FreeBSD. There has even been talk > that it'll be running Microsoft instead. That's upsetting, is there any reason they haven't tried to contact our developer base to resolve these issues, or is MicroSoft just twisting arms over there? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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