Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 9:31:55 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: john@pyromania.apana.org.au (John Herks) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SyQuest works with FreeBSD 2.0R ! Message-ID: <9501261631.AA24506@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199501260422.PAA00192@pyromania.apana.org.au> from "John Herks" at Jan 26, 95 03:22:36 pm
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> > I have just installed a SyQuest 3.5" 270 MB removable SCSI drive in my > FreeBSD 2.0R system. > > So far everything seems to work just fine! I was speaking to Darren Davis (the author of IOmega's Bernoulli drivers for various types of UNIX, and now in UnixWare developer support at Novell) about removable media about a year ago. You need to be careful if you have more than one drive that you only use a single disk in a single drive for a system boot instance, since the OS (incorrectly) uses the device as part of the ident, and can get confused if you switch drives. Otherwise, you should have no problems. Note that Bernoulli's themselves have formatting issues -- they don't use a vendor private for their detach format. If anyone else is considering Bernoulli vs. Syquest, this should be part of their decision. Also dual Bernoulli's and dual Syquest use LUNs on a single target to get two devices. Some of the SCSI drivers are "uncomfortable" with LUNs. I would suggest seperate drives at this time. I suspect throwing in AIX style volume management would muddy the waters considerably, but no one has done that (yet). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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