Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:39:38 +0100 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? Message-ID: <3AA4E89A.4631FB3E@ludd.luth.se> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C7A@l04.research.kpn.com> <3AA4AD13.DA48CFDD@ludd.luth.se> <20010306012622J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Hola! Jordan Hubbard wrote: > That could be, assuming that we had any idea just who inside of > Maxstor to discuss it with. Do you have any names and email > addresses? Not personally, but taken from the article about this issue, one person that obviously knows about this is Steve Wilkins, Maxtor's product marketing director. He should be able to reach through the Maxtor switchboard. Contact information from the Maxtor website: ( http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm?http&&&www.maxtor.com/contactUs/default.htm ) Maxtor Corporation 510 Cottonwood Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 USA Telephone: (408)432-1700 Fax: (408)432-4510 There is a press release about the MS deal (which meant kicking out FreeBSD): http://www.maxtor.com/press/2001/nr200103052.html In the press release a few other names appear: * Victor Jipson, president of the Network Systems Group at Maxtor * Mike Cannon, president and CEO of Maxtor. These should also (in some way) be able to reach through the main switchboard (or door for those in the area). The product itself, MaxAttach, have some contact information for technical support and so on: http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm?http&&&www.maxtor.com/contactUs/technicalSupport_MaxAttach.htm Also, I went through their Careers pages to see if I could find any names in connection with job opportunities related to OS development in the NAS-products. Unfortunately, all contact information are directed to the HR department. One (possibly) interesting thing to note is that they have lots of job opportunities for SW development deirected at MS specific things. I'm not sure what the conclusion might be. Either (a) they are changing direction and need a whole new staff. Or, (b) they have been working towards MS-centric systems for a long time. (Or (c) they need people, and these are good buzzwords to ask about). Anyway, hopefully they are positive in letting us know a bit more about why and what concerning what they perceived as problematic about FreeBSD. Was it only technical or was it lack of support? I'm also curious to in what ways they tried to get help with their problems. Personally, I'm not even close to be in Milpitas, and don't see myself as a proper representative for FreeBSD, so I feel I'm not the one to actually make the contact with Maxtor. -- Cheers! Joachim - Alltid i harmonisk svängning --- FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight ------ FairLight --- Joachim Strömbergson ASIC SoC designer, nice to CUTE animals Phone: +46(0)31 - 27 98 47 Web: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman --------------- Spamfodder: regeringen@regeringen.se --------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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