From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 01:23:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA06912 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 01:23:08 -0700 Received: from orpheus.amdahl.com (orpheus.amdahl.com [129.212.11.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA06893 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 01:23:03 -0700 Received: from amdahl.amdahl.com by orpheus.amdahl.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0rw3pU-0000KYC; Tue, 4 Apr 95 01:19 PDT Received: from amdahl.uts.amdahl.com by amdahl.amdahl.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #49) id m0rw3ru-0000q4C; Tue, 4 Apr 95 01:21 PDT Received: by amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (/\../\ Smail3.1.14.4 #14.16) id ; Tue, 4 Apr 95 01:21 PDT Message-Id: From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Subject: Re: Removeable media support To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 01:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 3, 95 02:54:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1098 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I found several old mailing lists messages pertaining to using a > Syquest removeable drive and an Iomega floptical with FreeBSD. Are > there any quirks to their operation? I assume I can just stick in a > cartridge with a proper filesystem and mount it? My Apple IIGS should > be arriving in my hands sometime next week after clearing customs in > Taiwan, and I'm thinking of connecting it's PLI floptical drive to the > FreeBSD box. No particular reason, just want to try it out. Anyone > else using this piece of hardware? As an aside, I'd just like to say that I've been running a re-badged IBM 650 MB Magneto-Optical drive under NetBSD 1.0A for the last month, with absolutely no problems - my small 4-line "fix" to get sd to recognise removable media has been in the sources for a while. Quicker than tape, more robust, and neat, neat, neat... Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 125 234 6377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]