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From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Jaz and FreeBSD: possible?
Date: 19 Aug 96 17:37:13 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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blakef@mrdata.com (Blake Freeburg) writes:
>Does anyone use the Iomega 'Jaz' - 1GB - drive as a mountable partition with
>FreeBSD? I am looking for that type of solution.
Yes, but its not pretty. The jist of it is this, if the platter has spun down
you cant mount it, if its mounted then it will spin up and work peachy.
Changing discs also does not work. The real interesting piece however, is that
if you mount it after a spin down, or changing the disc, and your system
panics, if you can get to the debugger typing "continue" will allow you to go
on your merry way with the now mounted (fine) Jaz Disk.. Go figure, I was
thinking about finding the offending panic and changing it to a warning (this
is with 2.2-960801-SNAP)
-Crh
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Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
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