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From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien)
Subject: Re: scsi(1) and WORM drives..
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 18:37:49 -0500 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199502160957.KAA12900@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 16, 95 10:57:41 am
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> 
> As Robert Schien wrote:
> | 
> | I have a Fujitsu MO drive and it would be nice if one could
> | have more support for optical drives. At the moment it is used as
> | a direct access device, i.e. like a hard drive (there is
> | a jumper on the drive).
> 
> Huh?  What else would you like to use it?  Besides that it's a hard
> drive, it's a *removeable* hard drive, isn't it?  (Sony MO drives do
> not have a jumper for this, they are always ``direct access,
> removable''.)
> 
Joerg,

besides type 1 devices SCSI knows the type 5 (worm) and type 8
(optical memory device). 

Robert