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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM!usenet From: lduncan@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM (Lee Duncan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms? Date: 09 Jan 1996 19:59:33 -0700 Organization: SunSoft Inc., Rocky Mountain Technology Center Lines: 31 Sender: lduncan@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM Distribution: inet Message-ID: <gn5longvjoq.fsf@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> <4cfldq$lic@crl.crl.com> <4cpiji$12s2@news.doit.wisc.edu> Reply-To: lduncan@Central.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: churchlady.central.sun.com In-reply-to: "Steven W. Smith"'s message of 7 Jan 1996 22:48:18 GMT X-Mailer: ViewMail (VM) Version 5.95 (beta) with GNU Emacs 19.29.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit) of Mon Oct 9 1995 on bilge X-Disclaimer: My opinions are so off the wall that nobody claims them X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36821 comp.sys.sun.hardware:31183 comp.unix.solaris:56100 comp.sys.sun.admin:59876 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1902 >>>>> "SWS" == Steven W Smith <steve> writes: SWS> Here is one thing that you can do. SWS> ... SWS> I haven't gotten it working with vold yet, but the eject command SWS> (eject /dev/dsk/c0t5d0) works fine. If anyone can figure out SWS> vold, please pass it along. I'm working on getting Volume Management to work with this beast, but I'm trying to come up with a general solution that'll work for all removable hard drives, i.e. not just SCSI disks. Email me if you want to get on my "zip interest list". SWS> These things are great for storing seldom used, but large SWS> goodies. I've heard of some (inside SunSoft) considering using them for Video. They seem ideal for that -- large capacity and reasonable access time. SWS> I bet you can even make a bootable one to get you up in SWS> a pinch. Of course this says nothing about DOS compatability, SWS> but they are still great little devices. They work with DOS -- except on SPARC, where FDISK currently isn't supported (but that *may* change "real soon now" -- or it may not (;-)). -- Lee Duncan Lee.Duncan@Central.Sun.COM He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -- M. C. Escher