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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:46:45 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier writes:
>
>> the problem is that none of the Tier 1 hardware manufacturer's support 
>> FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be 
>> dropping support for it as well ...
>
> But companies like 3Ware and Areca are supporting it and from what I see on 
> the lists, people are voting with their money in their favor.

The problem is that 3Ware and Areca, I believe, are SATA vendors ... what 
I'm trying to do is keep to one 'integrated environment / vendor', and 
stick with SCSI ...

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