From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 23:15:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02791 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02786 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06947; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:18:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:18:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tom Sparks cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Storage Device Support In-Reply-To: <3297C57D.7B20@cats.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Tom Sparks wrote: > I've been contemplating a few storage options for myself, and I'm > starting to feel that JAZ drives are the way for me to go. > Does FreeBSD support them? AFAIK, yes. They spit out some odd error messages on boot since their SCSI iplementatinos aren't complete, but they do work. I don't know if we ever figured out how to get a freeBSD filesystem on them. > I've also taken a look into QIC-Wide Drives which seem to be on > to about the speed of a DAT and are SCSI-2... > Do they work with FreeBSD? If they're SCSI, most likely. I believe we have one of these drives, a Connor 4gb. Works great. You'd have to ask about specific models, no doubt you'll get the whole range of opinions :) > I'd almost be happier with a JAZ drive because it would be a highly > useful thing to have versus a tape drive is only used for one thing... > JAZ disks can be used for anything... But you can't cram 8gb on a jaz, and you can on very modern tape drives :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major