From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 12:16:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.cpetc.com (hermes.cpetc.com [207.137.157.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B19315355 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kahn@deadbbs.com) Received: from erin-laptop (mongo.sdccd.cc.ca.us [209.129.16.5]) by hermes.cpetc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA27606; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:17:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Erin - Lists" To: , Subject: RE: Jaz drives, booting from one? Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:22:24 -0800 Message-ID: <001e01bf6384$10dcc540$6514820a@erin-laptop.sdccd.cc.ca.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http:\\www.deadbbs.com http:\\www.fortenberry.net