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|>  I wanted to know if anyone has tried the Iomega Jaz Drives 
|>  1Gb SCSI with Freebsd 2.1 or higher.

Yes, I have two working with 2.1R.

|>  Do they work as a bootable drive for BSD?

Yes.

|>  such that I can put the entire BSD install on one cartridge and boot 
|>   from it?

Yes.

|>  Are they decent performance wise?

Yes.

|>  Any issues with these drives 
|>  that I should know about before purchasing one?

Yes.  

1.  There is no write-protect tab.  There appears to be some sort of
    cartridge write-protect that can be set and cleared via software;
    but there is no FreeBSD support for it.

2.  Each drive comes with a 'Tools' cartridge.  This cartridge is
    specially formatted to be readable by both Mac and PC (MS-DOS/
    MS-WINDOWS*); and contains some tools and a multi-media show.
    The cartridge cannot be written by FreeBSD until the tools are
    installed (under PC or Mac OS), or the included 'recover' utility
    is run (also under PC or Mac OS).
    
    If you buy spare cartridges, they will be preformatted for either
    Mac or MS-DOS, with no data files; and may be used directly out
    of the box.
    
    
    
-Pat

My opinions are my own.  For a small royalty, they can be yours as well...
Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting
patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG                         http://Phoenix.Volant.ORG/