From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 8 13:31:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14498 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from quark.umd.edu (crb.mnsinc.com [206.239.213.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14472 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crb@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by quark.umd.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA09672; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:40:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@glue.umd.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: quark.umd.edu: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:40:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" X-Sender: crb@quark.umd.edu To: Philipp Reichmuth cc: Timothy J Luoma , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SyQuest Drives and FBSD In-Reply-To: <347EC410.167EB0E7@uni-bonn.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: >Timothy J Luoma wrote: >> >> Has anyone installed FSBD on a SyQuest drive, specifically a SyJet? > >Yes. I've done it on an EZflyer 230 for backup. It works. > >> I'd like to be able to use the SyJet as the boot drive for several different >> OSes, so I can put one OS on each cart, boot the machine and voila.... >> Also, can I mount EZ135 SyQuest cart under FBSD? > >I don't know why it shouldn't work. My EZflyer 230 works OK. You'll need >an appropriate disktab entry, though. > >> They are supposed to operate just like regular HDs. > >In fact, they do. I had to turn off disconnect for the SyQuest drive on >an Adaptec AHA2940U because otherwise the SCSI subsystem went down in >the dumps when the drive spun down. > >Philipp I haven't installed on one, but I do perform backups using one, I would have thought that the SCSI system would not be very tolerant of their spining down with inactivity. But I hear that the new SCSI subsystem will handle spun down disks much better. Best of all the disks are starting to get cheap, at $161 for a 3 pack. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@Glue.umd.edu My home page