From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 16:28:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sticky.usu.edu (sticky.usu.edu [129.123.1.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B86414C83 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:28:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hal@sticky.usu.edu) Received: from [129.123.1.184] (buffy.usu.edu [129.123.1.184]) by sticky.usu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AC934830; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:28:26 -0700 (MST) X-Sender: hal@sticky.usu.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:28:24 -0700 To: FreeBSDQuestions From: hal Lynch Subject: RE: Jaz drives, booting from one? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am thinking about completely reconfiguring my system. I am considering >purchasing an internal SCSI Jaz drive and modifying my system so the Jaz >drive becomes my boot drive. It is then my hope to be able to change >operating systems by changing Jaz disks. > >My questions are: >FreeBSD supposedly supports Jaz drives, does anyone have experience with >them? If so, how easy are the SCSI ones to get working with FreeBSD? > >Can you boot FreeBSD from a Jaz drive? (according to Iomega you can boot >NT from a Jaz drive...) > >Does anyone see any major flaws with this concept? > >My thanks, >Dave Ason Changing operating systems by changing disks is a great idea. Much better than multiple systems on one disk. I have a bootable jaz disk I keep for emergencies. It was never needed and is now obsolete. But it did work. Potential flaws are the speed and possible fragility of jaz drives/disks. A better solution IMHO is a canister mounted hard drive. The carrier and canisters are not too expensive. Drives are not bad either. It takes about 10 seconds to change canisters. I have a machine with one carrier and both FreeBSD and Linux canisters. Works just fine. The carrier mounts internally and is the same size as a cdrom drive. hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message