From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 5 9:30: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C51E37B5B7 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 09:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu) Received: from larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (mkc@localhost) by larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA45752; Fri, 5 May 2000 12:29:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu) Message-Id: <200005051629.MAA45752@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low cost consultant (?) In-Reply-To: Message from Brennan W Stehling of "Fri, 05 May 2000 09:18:16 CDT." Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 12:29:48 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I agree that FreeBSD should not lose focus as a server OS, but if there >were a larger user base we would find more hardware vendors working for >FreeBSD users. I wish that every autoloader tape drive out there had a >FreeBSD driver, but they hardly ever support FreeBSD. > >The last time I had to use a nice new autoloader tape drive I had to use >Linux because it happened to have support while FreeBSD did not. > >It is all about the numbers for hardware vendors. Is your autoloader a scsi device? Don't most modern scsi autoloaders conform to the scsi media changer interface standard at this point, making custom drivers unnecessary? Maybe what I really should be asking is "How long ago was it when you 'had to use Linux'"? Perhaps it was before the scsi media changer interface standard came into common usage. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message