Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:28:24 -0700 From: hal Lynch <hal@sticky.usu.edu> To: FreeBSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Jaz drives, booting from one? Message-ID: <l03130301b4ad50d82828@[129.123.1.184]>
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>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? > >My thanks, >Dave Ason Changing operating systems by changing disks is a great idea. Much better than multiple systems on one disk. I have a bootable jaz disk I keep for emergencies. It was never needed and is now obsolete. But it did work. Potential flaws are the speed and possible fragility of jaz drives/disks. A better solution IMHO is a canister mounted hard drive. The carrier and canisters are not too expensive. Drives are not bad either. It takes about 10 seconds to change canisters. I have a machine with one carrier and both FreeBSD and Linux canisters. Works just fine. The carrier mounts internally and is the same size as a cdrom drive. hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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