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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!courier.urbana.mcd.mot.com!drahn From: drahn@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Dale Rahn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI devices: flopptical, magneto optical?? Date: 9 Feb 1994 19:36:13 GMT Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2jbdvd$2cn@courier.urbana.mcd.mot.com> References: <2j8fol$fua@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.191.64.4 ummary: floptical SCSI drives In article <2j8fol$fua@nigel.msen.com> jbell@max.cybernet.com (J. Shan Bell) writes: > Are there any drivers for FreeBSD that work with either >a flopptical or an magneto optical drive? I have an IOmega and >and Alphatronix flopptical and MO respectively. > Any other kind of removeable high density storage device >supported? > > Floptical drive are not quite supported but will work. I have a Insite floptical hooked up to a pc which is running NetBSD 0.9. The floptical has a problem that whenever it is reset a command must be sent to it to write-enable the drive, I have patched the scsi driver (sd) to send this command when the drive is probed. I will send the diffs to anyone who wants them. The diffs are against the NetBSD 0.9 release so the proper FreeBSD patches may be somewhat different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dale Rahn, Languages and Tools drahn@urbana.mcd.mot.com Motorola, MCG, Urbana Design Center 1101 E. University Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 384-8585