From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 22 21:55:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF85E37BA4B; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id OAA18983; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:54:08 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03843; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:31:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:22:55 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "R. D. Davis" Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." , Josh Paetzel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, R. D. Davis wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > some importance but in reality its fairly difficult to convince developers > > to spend lots of time working on drivers for devices that won't work in > > the majority of new computers sold today. > > An Exabyte 8200, for example, is still in farly widespread use, and to > drop support for it in 4.0 seems a little strange. After all, it's > not exactly ancient. If its a SCSI tape drive, and it had a "rogue" entry prior to the CAM changes (3.x), then perhaps you might like to look at whether the CAM system can be updated to deal with its idiosyncracies. SCSI tape drives are definitely supported. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message