Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:20:36 +0200 From: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Summary] Re: Reading Solaris 2.5 filesystems Message-ID: <20000619072036.A653@broccoli.no-support.loc> In-Reply-To: <200006190312.NAA17873@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:12:18PM %2B1000 References: <200006190312.NAA17873@lightning.itga.com.au>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 01:12:18PM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > [Why don't we just connect the MO drive to the Suns? Because AFAIK the S= olaris > 2.6 SD driver doesn't support MO drives, the only Solaris driver we have = is the > Artecon one that only works for 2.5, and we don't have any 2.5 systems le= ft.] Almost any MO drive can be configured (e.g. jumper) to introduce itself as a (removable) direct access device (id 0x00) rather than a WORM (id 0x04). Solaris would treat the drive as a normal hard disk via sd driver. You may still run into problems regarding the 2048 byte sector size of usual MO media, but this depends on how you are going to access the data. Bj=F6rn --=20 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS d--(+) s++: a- C+++(-) UB++++OSI++++$ P+++(-) L---(++) !E W- N+ o>+ K- !w !O !M !V PS++ PE- PGP++ t+++ !5 X++ tv- b+++ D++ G e+ h-- y+=20 ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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