Re: Why I Love Solaris OS* Contest

From: Andrzej Popielewicz (vasco_at_icpnet.pl)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:50:31 +0200

Użytkownik UNIX admin napisał:
>>>
> I don't think you understood the above sentence correctly: LACK of supported
> hardware on the HCL means not enough driver work is being done at Sun.

Not quite true. At the beginning HCL list(I mean only Solaris 9 HCL
list, but the remarks shoud be generally true I suppose) was rather
short. The LACK of for example Adaptec 2940UW on the list in the past
did not mean, that there are no drivers supporting this Adaptec adapter,
but that nobody did not test it yet.
Concluding, the true list of supported hardware is for sure longer than
the actual HCL list.

It is clear , that for some devices, like Firewire etc , the drivers
were missing or are missing, this is why there are no supported hardware
on the list.

> HCL says so with lack of hardware on the list, otherwise, it'd be chalk full
> of it.

Not quite true. I have some devices not shown on the list, which work
fine. but I did not have time to submit it.

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