*BSD News Article 62429


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compatible Removeable SCSI Drives
Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:52:06 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <312FAC67.146F@wcupa.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Peter Schwenk  <pschwenk@wcupa.edu> wrote:

>I have a small FreeBSD machine running INN that I want to be able to backup
>periodically.  I would like to use either optical or magnetic removeable 
>disk cartridge drives, and I was wondering if any were compatible. [...]
>  I'm leaning toward disk cartridges because of
>the speed.

I think fast tape drives are faster than cartridge disk drives (at
least, than MO -- but i wouldn't trust that much to magnetic ones).

Either kind of disks is basically compatible, though you might get
some unexpected messages, mostly a ``UNIT ATTENTION'' one after
changing the medium.

There's also an `od' driver available specialized to magneto-optical
disks (and potentially also for other removable-media disk drives),
but it didn't made it into 2.1R.  However, it's available under
/xperimnt there (in ``joergs-2.2-stuff'') if you are curious.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)