From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 24 09:03:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA12565 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12546 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 09:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id KAA12203; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:50:50 -0500 Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma012201; Sat Aug 24 11:50:39 1996 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 24 Aug 96 11:50:32 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 24 Aug 96 11:50:23 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: Stefan Esser , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:50:20 +0500 Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <71D1F919F9@dasa.ppi.com> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:03:44 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Stefan Esser > To: "Rodney W. Grimes" > Cc: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser), michaelv@headcandy.com, > jas@flyingfox.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Much deleted here... > There have been real bugs (and real nasty bugs :) in the driver, and > there most probably are still some more (in which driver aren't any ?). > And I'm very interested in further improving the quality of the code. > But I found that I can't do this besides my current job (there are > only so many hours to a day ...) and I'm really wondering whether it > is a good idea to spend all of my vacation on this. > > It's as simple as this ... > > Regards, STefan > Your work is appreciated by many out here! I don't think you should blow your vacation on updating the driver unless that it what you enjoy doing. Some people on this newsgroup need to realize that we are getting immeasurably valuable services for free, and the people who provide them deserve nothing but praise (and the occasional bug report). I am sure Mr Grimes did not intend to denigrate you or your work in any way. He has always been helpful to both myself and the FreeBSD community at large and I certainly don't include him in the group of people who sometimes appear ungrateful for the services rendered by others - quite the contrary. Maybe the next time someone sends a bug to the author of a driver (or any part of the system, for that matter) a short word of thanks is in order for what they have done so far. I better stop now before I end up running for public office! Thanks to everyone who has helped me by making FreeBSD available. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================