Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:17:46 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "morganw@jps.net" <morganw@jps.net> Subject: Re: Ruinning FreeBSD on Parallel port driver Message-ID: <199810161618.MAA31656@laker.net>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:04:00 -0500 (CDT), Paul T. Root wrote: >In a previous message, Steve Friedrich said: >> --Original Message Text--- >> From: Morgan Werner >> Date: 15 Oct 98 18:39:44 Pacific Standard Time >> >> I need some information about running freeBSD on a syquest parallel >> port drive. >> Please give me the instructions for this. >> >> You can't! > > >If you have the SyJet, the parallel port drive is actually a SCSI drive >with a fancy cable. Buy a SCSI card and cable and you're done. > >I've never seen a SparQ so I don't know if it's the same way, but I'd >guess that it is. I can tell you for a fact, it's not. > > > >> You should buy an IDE or SCSI drive. I hope you asked before you >> bought. >> >> BTW, I used SyQuest SparQs for testing a product being ported from >> Clarion for DOS to Clarion for Windows, and I found that the SparQ EIDE >> drive was incompatible with some motherboards/BIOSes. Even after >> finding a motherboard/BIOS that would detect the SparQ natively >> (without SyQuest utility), I couldn't install OS/2 to it, and Windows >> NT didn't like that little setup either. They distinguish between >> non-removable DASD and removable DASD. DASD is IBMspeak for secondary >> storage, as in disk drive... > >A friend of mine has a SyJet cartridge that is working as a bootable >NT disk. He could not get it to work with the NTFS however. This is, >of course, SCSI (well, we buy the parallel disk, but use it on SCSI). I have a SyJet SCSI at home and I love it. But most stores have stopped carrying it, and only stock the SparQ, which isn't available with a SCSI interface at all, and the EIDE interface can be problematic (doesn't get properly detected by some BIOSes, therefore, can't be boot device) My SyJet works great, due to the SCSI interface. Viva la SCSI (even if it took three generations to get a real spec) Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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