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Subject: Re: Can you install and run FreeBSD on a Iomega Jaz cartridge?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:56:35 -0700 (MST)
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> This is where you may have problems; many BIOSsen don't consider the
> Jaz to be a 'bootable' device, because it reports itself as being a
> removable.  

It would have to be an old SCSI controller for this... I have an NCR
and an AHA1742 that both work...

I believe you can rejumper it so it does not report itself this way.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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