From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 24 18:57:11 2005 Return-Path: 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 AD0FE16A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:57:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7442343D48 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05815E41; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:57:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27797-07; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D695C82; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <426BEBF7.8010203@mac.com> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:56:55 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ChrisC References: <6.1.2.0.0.20050424095347.019ab7b0@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20050424095347.019ab7b0@pop.east.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to find good/cheap tech support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:57:11 -0000 ChrisC wrote: > Where would you all recommend that one can go to find good FreeBSD tech > support that does not cost $150+ an hour? This mailing list usually does a pretty good job, considering, and it's free. However, someone located on-site or near to where-ever the machine is, is going to do a better job than someone located far away-- it's much easier to work on console than debug problems remotely via email. (This is true even when the problem isn't PEBKAC. :-) -- -Chuck PS: The acronym googles well, not that I mean to suggest *your* problem is a matter of user error. Are you sure the SCSI controller is still OK-- does it work in another machine?