Date: Thu, 29 Dec 94 10:49:31 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: MULHOLLENJ@cpva.saic.com (John Mulhollen) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, MULHOLLENJ@cpva.saic.com Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <9412291749.AA08372@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <941229083703.22406b97@CPVA.SAIC.COM> from "John Mulhollen" at Dec 29, 94 08:37:03 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > I haven't tried it yet, but should there be any problems using the two? I'd > like to be able to use the bernoulli as backup media and as install > target (at different times of course!). I would think (this is where I > > usually go wrong...) that they;d look like standard scsi drives and everything > is wonderful... Formatting is a problem... (1) I don't thing we support formatting of SCSI devices (2) If we did, the Bernoulli drives *lie* and say they are done formatting immediately. A correct implementation would have them ack the format *after* they were in a state to accept further SCSI commands. I've seen problems with a Kawai synthesizer that uses removable SCSI media for patches and so on, whereas it worked fine with a Syquest. (3) The Bernoulli dual drives show up as LUN 0 and 1 on the same SCSI device. This is a potential problem -- I don't think all the SCSI drivers for BSD have been tested to make sure they all work with LUN's. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9412291749.AA08372>