From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 19:57:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA29571 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA29501 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA04312; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:57:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jaz support In-Reply-To: <199708261915.QAA02185@dragon.acadiau.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Michael Richards wrote: > Hi! > I have a Jaz drive on which I hope to back up a freebsd server from time to > time. The problem is... the server sits 100 miles away. Does anyone know how > to eject a jaz disk after it is unmounted? Thus, I can have someone push the > disk in once a week, and I can run a backup then eject it so the backup > cannot be compromised if the system is. > I know linux (did I say a bad word?) has a jazztools program that will allow > this. Anyone know of a port? I would prefer to use native bsd, not emulated > progs. Well, all you need to know is the SCSI command to eject it, then you can use the scsi(8) program to issue it. The author of the jazztools package should be able to give this to you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo