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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:22:24 -0800
From:      "Erin - Lists" <ef-lists@deadbbs.com>
To:        <dgason@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Jaz drives, booting from one?
Message-ID:  <001e01bf6384$10dcc540$6514820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <Springmail.105.948398516.0.81710300@www.springmail.com>

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> Hello all,
>
> I am thinking about completely reconfiguring my system. I am
> considering purchasing an internal SCSI Jaz drive and
> modifying my system so the Jaz drive becomes my boot drive.
> It is then my hope to be able to change operating systems by
> changing Jaz disks.
>
> My questions are:
> FreeBSD supposedly supports Jaz drives, does anyone have
> experience with them? If so, how easy are the SCSI ones to
> get working with FreeBSD?
>
> Can you boot FreeBSD from a Jaz drive? (according to Iomega
> you can boot NT from a Jaz drive...)
>
> Does anyone see any major flaws with this concept?


The only problem I can think of would be the disks them selves. They are
***VERY*** easily damaged and what is on them is not so easily replaced.


Good luck.


Erin



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