From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 18 23:21:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uni-bielefeld.de (mail2.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.4.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C5A37BC0C for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:21:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfischer@Techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from frolic.no-support.loc (ppp36-169.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.36.169]) by mail.uni-bielefeld.de (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0FWE009EU1NWLU@mail.uni-bielefeld.de> for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:21:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from broccoli.no-support.loc (broccoli.no-support.loc [192.168.43.99]) by frolic.no-support.loc (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00760; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:20:37 +0200 (CEST envelope-from bjoern@no-support.loc) Received: (from bjoern@localhost) by broccoli.no-support.loc (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00702; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:20:36 +0200 (CEST envelope-from bjoern@no-support.loc) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:20:36 +0200 From: Bjoern Fischer Subject: Re: [Summary] Re: Reading Solaris 2.5 filesystems In-reply-to: <200006190312.NAA17873@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:12:18PM +1000 To: Gregory Bond Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20000619072036.A653@broccoli.no-support.loc> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <200006190312.NAA17873@lightning.itga.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:12:18PM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > [Why don't we just connect the MO drive to the Suns? Because AFAIK the S= olaris > 2.6 SD driver doesn't support MO drives, the only Solaris driver we have = is the > Artecon one that only works for 2.5, and we don't have any 2.5 systems le= ft.] Almost any MO drive can be configured (e.g. jumper) to introduce itself as a (removable) direct access device (id 0x00) rather than a WORM (id 0x04). Solaris would treat the drive as a normal hard disk via sd driver. You may still run into problems regarding the 2048 byte sector size of usual MO media, but this depends on how you are going to access the data. Bj=F6rn --=20 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s++: a- C+++(-) UB++++OSI++++$ P+++(-) L---(++) !E W- N+ o>+ K- !w !O !M !V PS++ PE- PGP++ t+++ !5 X++ tv- b+++ D++ G e+ h-- y+=20 ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message