Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:22:55 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: "R. D. Davis" <rdd@smart.net> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." <larry@pkunk.net>, Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...) Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.1000723121942.1644A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007221342490.26676-100000@smarty.smart.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.OS2.3.95.1000723121942.1644A-100000>