From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 10:22:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA15568 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:22:02 -0700 Received: from gateway.cybernet.com (gateway.cybernet.com [192.245.33.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15562 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:21:59 -0700 Received: from [192.245.33.12] by gateway.cybernet.com (8.6.8/1.0A) id NAA07727; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:52:04 -0400 X-Sender: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:23:37 -0500 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org From: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Subject: Re: Removeable media support Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I found several old mailing lists messages pertaining to using a >> Syquest removeable drive and an Iomega floptical with FreeBSD. Are >> there any quirks to their operation? I assume I can just stick in a >> cartridge with a proper filesystem and mount it? My Apple IIGS should >> be arriving in my hands sometime next week after clearing customs in >> Taiwan, and I'm thinking of connecting it's PLI floptical drive to the >> FreeBSD box. No particular reason, just want to try it out. Anyone >> else using this piece of hardware? > >As an aside, I'd just like to say that I've been running a re-badged >IBM 650 MB Magneto-Optical drive under NetBSD 1.0A for the last month, >with absolutely no problems - my small 4-line "fix" to get sd to >recognise removable media has been in the sources for a while. > >Quicker than tape, more robust, and neat, neat, neat... > >Cheers, >Alistair >-- >Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 >Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. >[These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation] At $100 (US) a disk, it is more expensive. MO technology: $100 ------ = $0.15 per megabyte. 650 Mb 4mm DAT tape technology: $20 ------ = $8 per gigabyte = $0.0078 per megabyte 2.5 Gb But, MO technology is MUCH MUCH faster than tape, and looks just like another SCSI hard drive. -Mark Taylor mtaylor@cybernet.com