From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 28 20:32:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DCA16A528 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:32:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4074E442EB for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FvgGy-0009MR-7A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:04:28 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) In-Reply-To: <20060628160833.T43909@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20060622145130.I1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060628131353.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> <8C7F19A3-647E-4FF1-9FEB-7B7DC426AB14@shire.net> <20060628160833.T43909@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <33F146CC-B09E-47C9-A8A4-A493931CA2BB@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:04:27 -0600 To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:32:50 -0000 On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:08 PM, User Freebsd wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> >> On Jun 28, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >>> growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be >>> dropping support for it as well ... >> >> Many places are starting support for FreeBSD, or increased >> support, as well -- Areca RAID, HPT RAID cards, more LSI cards >> with better monitoring (it appears -- maybe it was always there >> and I did not notice it) > > Most of those are SATA related stuff though, no? > Yes and no. LSI has high end SCSI stuff. I was just replying in general that vendors are not necessarily dropping support. Some stuff is dropped, some stuff just not updated, etc. And some new vendors or existing vendors with new products have increased support. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net