Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 09:08:57 -0700 From: "Mark G.M. O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] SyQuest SQ3270A; graphics Message-ID: <199511221608.JAA18892@jack.colorado.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 1995 23:19:26 EST."
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I really hate to slam a product, but the removablity of the cartridge is not your biggest worry. I had a SQ3270 (actually I went through 3 in 6 months). Every one of them was broken. The return process was lousy, with numerous stories about the location of my replacements. The people in returns finally admitted that they were getting an awful lot of returns for this product, and that they couldn't keep up with them all. When it was over I finally got a refund, but lost countless megabytes of data. (I originally purchased the drive in December of 1994) If they have indeed fixed the drives, the drive seems to lock at random times (you can mount and unmount them with no problem, but it only lets you eject them around 80% of the time). Of course you can always use a paper clip after you unmount it if the eject button doesn't work. They have a DOS utility to unlock them, but it doesn't seem to unlock them under pcemu (I get no errors, but it doesn't unlock the drive). Good luck, Mark Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU > On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > now that 2.1-R is out, I'm thinking about installing FreeBSD. However, I > > > still have the following questions: > > > > > > How does FreeBSD handle SyQuest removable drives? I have an SQ3270 (the IDE > > > version of the 270meg drive), and use both 105meg and 270meg cartridges. Is > > > it possible to mount/unmount cartridges of *different* sizes while the > > > system is running? > > my GUESS is yes, but I don't know anyone who'se tried it.. > > you must remmeber to totally unmount a disk before taking it out > > and swapping it... > > > > If it doesn't work, then it's something we really should suport > > but have botched.. > > My removeable 100 mb zip drive works execllently. I can mount, unmount, > pop and change the disk, just like a floppy. >
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