Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:51:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd@smart.net> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "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.LNX.4.10.10007221342490.26676-100000@smarty.smart.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007220226050.610-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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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. > > So who is supposed to have this "strong commitment"? My desire to play > with old hardware only covers so much commitment before I get frusterated Devices like tape drives are not cheap... people have investments in drives like the Exabytes, pefectly good hardware that's far from useless which still holds a reasonable amount of data and is fairly quick for home use. Are we expected to purchase all new hardware everytime we upgrade? If so, it appeas that Microsoftitis may be infecting the brains of some people working on FreeBSD, alas. -- R. D. Davis rdd@perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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