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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!news.inhouse.compuserve.com!news From: "Rell W. Ambrose" <rell@csi.compuserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: [2.0] Support for rmovable drives Date: 27 Jan 1995 12:07:18 GMT Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3ganlm$2k3@mhaal.inhouse.compuserve.com> References: <1995Jan24.184946.722@robkaos.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rell.inhouse.compuserve.com > I have both a Syquest and a Fujitsu MO drive. They can be used > as fixed disks, but there is a problem when you change media. > A unit attention arises and the device disappears. Therefore > you need to reboot even if you put in an identically partitioned > cartridge. > Could there support for such drives be added? > > Thanx in advance. > Robert I HAve a Syquest drive. I treat it just like a floppy disk in that I unmout it before swapping media, and then remount the new disk. This seems to work fine. Actually you have to unmount a removeable drive to swap media since the driver LOCKs the media when you mount it. -Rell W. Ambrose