Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:30:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.ed.ray.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can you install and run FreeBSD on a Iomega Jaz cartridge? Message-ID: <199701141730.KAA29988@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701140108.LAA21604@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 14, 97 11:38:35 am
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> > I boot Solaris, NetBSD, and OpenBSD off of the JAZ drive with > > the "turbo" button "on". > > Fair enough. Perhaps there is some other bogon in my system that causes > it not to work. Try this: 1) Power on your machine 2) Wait for SCSI bus probe 3) Insert the media This is necessary on the Alpha, or the disk does not spin up... > > Heh... I don't think, after looking at a Kawai Km, which expects it's > > SCSI device to not return until the low level format is complete, > > that *any* IOmega drive is built for musicians. A number of Yahama > > boxes expect the same thing from their SCSI devices as well, and > > since the Bernoulli days, IOmega drives have detached following > > format. > > Who formats SCSI drives? How many musicians even know it's possible? 8) All the musicians who buy JAZ drives and don't want to spend another $120 on media because the default tools disk is software "locked", of course, since you would never want to delete your DOS utilities... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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