Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 12:29:48 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low cost consultant (?) Message-ID: <200005051629.MAA45752@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> of "Fri, 05 May 2000 09:18:16 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005050916040.58641-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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>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
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