From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 23:39:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA27811 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 23:39:33 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (MAIL.BARRNET.NET [131.119.245.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA27804 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 23:39:32 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/BARRNET-Len-Rose) id XAA05416; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 23:39:12 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA24130; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:38:22 +0800 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:38:21 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: Removeable media support In-Reply-To: <199504022013.WAA03213@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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