From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 22:09:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB41F16A4CF for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E7E43D2D for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:09:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 1BA0311E8C6; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:09:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:09:10 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050128220910.GA97147@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D65564061136C0@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D65564061136C0@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: magneto-optical drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:09:10 -0000 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.