Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Database for NetBSD. Contribute!
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/03/2000 10:05:41
On 03-Feb-00 Richard Rauch wrote:
> Unless the authors actively maintain a NetBSD implementation, it's not
> really their job to figure out how well it works on our system.  Wasn't
> there an ATAPI<->SCSI issue along these lines (some tool claimed not to
> support ATAPI, though in fact it worked well with NetBSD
> ATAPI)?  Providing that information isn't the job of the software author.
> IMHO.

I do agree wit you in this particular instance.  CD's CDW's etc are excellent
examples of something that should definately be in the database.  Tablets
possibly are too.. assuming anyone out there actually has one.

BTW- The page looks excellent.

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