Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:49:48 -0500 (CDT) From: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) To: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removeable media support Message-ID: <m0rvu0K-00030iC@obiwan.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <v01520b09aba5bc20daab@[192.245.33.12]> from "Mark J. Taylor" at Apr 3, 95 10:08:43 am
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Mark J. Taylor wrote: > [ floptical problem desc deleted ] > > I had one of these drives (still have one at a customer site). It required > a kernel hack under 1.1 to make it work (I was using an Adaptech 154xB, not > the C which has floptical/removable support) in the scsiconf file. > Basically, I had to add in a routine or two into the scsi stuff to make it > unlock the drive when it was attached. > > Awfully nasty hack/device. Never quite worked (lotsa timeouts). I did get > it to read a 20 Mb disk once, though. I had to ask it a few times to mount > the device (I think that the drive had to be spinning in order for the > mount to work right). I think that the 1.1 patch came from Bob Wilcox. > Bob? Nope, wasn't me. I had and used a Syquest removable disk for awhile, but have never owned or used a floptical. -- Bob Willcox bob@obiwan.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX
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