Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 20:00:55 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: core@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI Zip Drive Message-ID: <199701010100.UAA20316@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199612312251.JAA15714@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jan 1, 97 09:51:01 am"
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> >In the long run, i would see all removable disks go to `od'. We could > >then continue to improve the `sd' driver for fixed media devices. > > `od' is an odd name for a removable scsi disk driver. "od" should be the type-specific driver for a SCSI device that claims to be an "optical memory device". The optical memory device has specific behavior defined for some commands in the SCSI-II spec. Being "od" need not require removable media (granted I don't see the advantage of a fixed "od"). Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
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