From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 17 02:31:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA03461 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 02:31:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA03412 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 02:30:32 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23810; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:29:01 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id LAA04396 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:29:00 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA24610; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 10:58:14 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199502170958.KAA24610@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: scsi(1) and WORM drives.. To: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 10:58:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Robert Schien" at Feb 16, 95 06:37:49 pm X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 610 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Schien wrote: MO drive types | besides type 1 devices SCSI knows the type 5 (worm) and type 8 | (optical memory device). Well, but why exactly do you wanna use this? As i said, older Sony MODs didn't even give you the choice, they are alway `direct/ removable'. And i will yet have to see a system accepting type 8 drives correctly; Data General and Silicon Graphics don't. -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)