chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (12/01/88)
> My question: anybody know under why I should pay over $1,000 more for a > custom driver? Where will you get a driver if the manufacturer doesn't supply one? I guess you can write your own, but I will pay $1000 easily instead of having to write it. Since I see you are commercially employed, I would guess your loaded salary at (at least) the $100/hr mark. Can you write a fully debugged, production quality driver in 10 hours? Spend the money. Get the driver. Sleep easy. Chuck Musciano Advanced Technology Department Harris Corporation (407) 727-6131 ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com
dwf%lambda@lanl.gov (Dave Forslund) (12/02/88)
Sun-Spots-Request@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre): > We're evaluating a few Exabyte-style tape drives.... > My question: anybody know under why I should pay over $1,000 more for a > custom driver? Why buy a device driver? We just hung our exabyte drive on a Sun3 SCSI port (Sun si driver OS4.0) and it works just like a 1/4" tape and dumps at the rate of 800Mbytes/hour. Dave Forslund Los Alamos National Laboratory
ajw@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Andy Wilcox) (12/14/88)
> Why buy a device driver?
Well, it *is* possible to get a sun configuration that does not have a
scsi port. And, this being said, it is possible to buy a scsi card, sans
driver, from a third party. This happened 'round these parts. In this
case, you've got scsi card A, and a scsi driver for card B...
--Andy Wilcox, U Florida