Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:03:24 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: Eldon Sprickerhoff <bb9@interlog.com>, Alan Barclay <gorilla@elaine.drink.com>, Stephen Jonker <sjonker@klg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SyQuest EZ135 Removable cartridge disk drive Message-ID: <96Jan18.120511est.20481@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <9601181643.AA24998@klg.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Stephen Jonker wrote:
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> > Earlier this morning I read all sorts of archived email messages that
> > indicated that the EZ135 will work just great with FreeBSD....
> >
> > It is a SCSI external 135 Meg removable drive....
> >
> > None of the messages were for the EZ135. They were for the 270 Meg version
> > of the removable cartridge drives... After sending Email to the hackers
> > list, I went and purchased one for $299.00, at of all places, a MAC
> > wharehouse. The only difference is the price... *379.00 at joe's computer
> > emporium and $325.00 at the place next to joe's.....
> >
> > I will install it tonight and let you all know how it went(I would not
> > have got it if I felt it would fail).....
> >
> > Now if I want another 135Meg for someting else, I spend $35.00 and get
> > another cartridge.... Great for what I want to do....
> >
> > Geez, I am beginning to follow Stephen's example...
> >
> > 'learn, learn, learn. But! I need the toys first!!!!'.
> >
> > The justification will follow in the form of experience....
> >
> > Sounds good to me...
>
> Hi,
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> So how did it go.
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> Bye, Stephen.
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Well, it took more time to open up my system and remove the internal SCSI
bus terminators than it took to connect, fdisk, disklabel, newfs the whole
drive...
Point, actually a safety point, if I press the eject button while the
drive is mounted, it will eject the cartridge ***AFTER*** I umount the
drive... It will wait.... No blown file systems...COOL!!!!!!
BTW: the drives 13ms access times that are posted on www.syquest.com seem
to be accurat.... It is bloody fast for a AHA 1520...
Question: It only formatted to about 128Meg... The docs say it it 135Meg.
Is this correct ????
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