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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD & JAZ Drive
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:45:01 +0900
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Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Is your JAZ scsi ?  For that matter, are all JAZs scsi - I don't know.
> > If it is, send a follow up and I'll ask him for specifics - or get him
> > to post.  If it isn't (are there paralell JAZ drives?), I wouldn't
> > really be surprised that it doesn't work - the golden rule is that
> > you can't boot from a device that your BIOS can't read at boot time.
> 
> PMJI, I didn't ask the JAZ question, but I AM interested in the answer!
> 
> Yes, all JAZ drives are SCSI.  There aren't any parallel JAZ drives. a
> friend of mine just put one on his Amoeba, Ah, Amiga. <G>

The internal ones are fine, I hear that the external ones have some auto 
power management feature that causes problems.

-mh