Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, jas@flyingfox.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI again: Asus SC200 vs. Adaptec 2940 Message-ID: <199608212007.NAA10653@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199608211913.VAA04328@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Aug 21, 96 09:13:13 pm"
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... > > >I do have to say that I have an order of magnitude more trust in the > > >aha2940 driver, and on my ability to get a bug fixed when I need it > > >(Hi Justin! Thanks for the _GREAT_ support!!) by sending the broken > > >hardware to Justin and giving him some time to work on it. > > Well, that really would help ... > Why did I never receive a single piece of broken hardware to be able > to reproduce a problem somebody sees with a single disk, tape or CDROM > drive. Simple economics, it cost me less than $25.00 to overnight a drive and controller combination down to Justin, $50.00 round trip as I usually have him bill the return shipment to my accounts. It would cost me on the order of $87.00 each way to ship to you, plus there is the whole export/import/VAT and other taxes situation. It is very hard to get past VAT as you have to deal with temporary export/ import paper work and all sorts of other oddities. It also takes me 5 minutes to prep a shipment to Justin, it would take close to an hour to prep an international temporary export. I make very little money selling SC-200 cards at $75.00 a piece there just isn't much margin in them. > This makes me wonder (again), whether I really should spend $1000 > on the necessary hardware, and time worth some $10000 or more (if I > spent it on paid work) just to allow other people to use the latest > 53c8xx variants (Ultra-WIDE), who then complain about a NCR driver > bug, whenever some VM system tuning introduces temporal instability :) Don't make me laugh... I've probably invested well into the 6 digits of time and money into FreeBSD in one way or another. I am sure David, John, Jordan, Poul, Julian, and a fist full of others are in the same situation. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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