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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:49:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
To:        mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Removeable media support
Message-ID:  <m0rvu0K-00030iC@obiwan.pmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <v01520b09aba5bc20daab@[192.245.33.12]> from "Mark J. Taylor" at Apr 3, 95 10:08:43 am

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Mark J. Taylor wrote:
> 
  [ floptical problem desc deleted ]

> 
> I had one of these drives (still have one at a customer site).  It required
> a kernel hack under 1.1 to make it work (I was using an Adaptech 154xB, not
> the C which has floptical/removable support) in the scsiconf file.
> Basically, I had to add in a routine or two into the scsi stuff to make it
> unlock the drive when it was attached.
> 
> Awfully nasty hack/device.  Never quite worked (lotsa timeouts).  I did get
> it to read a 20 Mb disk once, though.  I had to ask it a few times to mount
> the device (I think that the drive had to be spinning in order for the
> mount to work right).  I think that the 1.1 patch came from Bob Wilcox.
> Bob?

Nope, wasn't me.  I had and used a Syquest removable disk for awhile, but
have never owned or used a floptical.


-- 
Bob Willcox
bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net)
Austin, TX



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