From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 21 15:23:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13855 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13826 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA23006 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:23:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA18786; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:18:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971022001854.DS19056@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:18:54 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT drives References: <"Tom"@Oct> <199710211857.TAA01003@yedi.iaf.nl> <199710211921.MAA00740@grumpy.ccnvhi.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710211921.MAA00740@grumpy.ccnvhi.com>; from Paul Norton on Oct 21, 1997 12:21:32 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Norton wrote: > > So, Sun, SGI, DEC, etc all just rebadge them. > Not so. Some load their own version of the DLT firmware. Their own versions, or just their own vendor string only? I'd rather assume the latter. The little brother of the NIH syndrome... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)