From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 1 15:52: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Mercury.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE2837B567 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from accord.grasslake.net (honda.grasslake.net [192.168.1.1]) by mercury.campbell-mithun.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA19803 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:56:33 -0500 Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA27161 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:48:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <005801bfcc1c$08894e30$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: Subject: Panasonic LM-7390 MO Drive Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:52:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anyone know anything about these beasts? Usable like any other normal removable or not? Panasonic has nothing about them on their site, other than a miscellanous firmware upgrade of unknown purpose. It came with a WORM cart (double-sided, 1.4G total, Panasonic LM-W1400A) which appears to be OK -- drive accepts cart, apppears to mount it, but cart is unmountable as MSDOS filesystem (it was last used on a PC). Format attempts also fail, although maybe I trashed the cart by trying to format a WORM cart.. It won't accept one of the zillion 5.25 1.2GB MO R/W carts I have (too thick by 2mm), and I can't find a link to what R/W carts it *should* take. DVD-RAM carts I have are the correct thickness, but too narrow. According to a cow-orker, the drive has about 1 hour of actual usage on it from some consultant-driven archiving system that was assembled and then abandoned, but nobody seems to know anything about the drive or its media, other than the drive was seldom if ever used. -- swb@grasslake.net Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message