From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 14:49:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA20192 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:49:57 -0700 Received: from obiwan.pmr.com (obiwan.pmr.com [199.98.84.130]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA20186 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:49:55 -0700 Received: by obiwan.pmr.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0rvu0K-00030iC; Mon, 3 Apr 95 16:49 CDT Message-Id: From: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: Removeable media support To: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:49:48 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark J. Taylor" at Apr 3, 95 10:08:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 912 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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