Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:09:10 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: magneto-optical drives Message-ID: <20050128220910.GA97147@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D65564061136C0@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com> References: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D65564061136C0@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com>
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: >Hi all. > >I am not sure whether it is the right thread for my kind of question. If it >isn't please let me know where to post it. >I was wondering if any of the people on this list were able to mount and >read (don't need writing) successfully Maxtor magneto-optical drives, or any >magneto-optical drive for that matter. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. It's been at least 10 years since I last seriously used MO drives, these being SCSI Sony units. They were treated like any other SCSI removable HD device, and access to the data required suitable disk partitioning/slicing, or whatever the OS called it at the time. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS.
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