Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:38:21 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Removeable media support Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950403143410.20912p-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199504022013.WAA03213@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> Oooh, are the flopticals really by Iomega?
I don't know, I just grabbed those messages off the mailing list
archive on www.freebsd.org.
> I've got hold of one (it's
> only borrowed, i've attached it just out of interest), and it
> identifies itself as ``Insite'' (which it is also labelled):
>
> (bt0:6:0): "INSITE I325VM *F 0387" is a type 0 removable SCSI 1
This is the model that I have.
> sd1(bt0:6:0): Direct-Access
> sd1(bt0:6:0): NOT READY asc:4,0
> sd1(bt0:6:0): Logical unit not ready, cause not reportable
> sd1: could not get size
> 0MB (0 512 byte sectors)
>
> I could not get it to write anything. Neither on standard floppies
> nor on flopticals. I've once trashed a floppy with it, it required
> some 20 formatting cycles to get it alive again...
This is booting with a formatted floptical in place? I had
problems with the floptical on the GS until I upgraded the ROM on my
SCSI controller to recognize a removeable SCSI device that could have
changing sector sizes and block densities (it was doubling as a
1.44-meg floppy drive).
> I'm still interested to get it working, albeit with low priority.
No real need to have a floptical working, but I thought it would
be nice to have around.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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