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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Has anyone else had trouble with tech support with BSDI?
Date: 17 May 1996 11:55:46 -0700
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>Has anyone else had trouble with tech support with BSDI?
>We have had one HELL of a time getting call backs.

I've always dealt with them via email, partly because of the convenience,
and partly because the phone support person (or people, though I doubt they
have more than one) wouldn't talk to me because she didn't believe that we'd
paid for support.

That said, I've had mixed results via email -- largely dependent on who on
their end sends it.  I've had to fight with one certain person there to get
the answers, which is especially frustrating when the release notes are in
error.  They say that the Buslogic BT956C is "supported", though this person
at BSDI finally told me after I hounded him that wide transfers do *not* work
with any SCSI controller, and that *no* differential controllers will work.
This was when I was putting together a PO to order FWD controllers and disks.