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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD for Sun 3/60 supported devices ?? Date: 5 Nov 1996 23:04:50 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 21 Message-ID: <55oh6i$cne@news.bayarea.net> References: <dz4tj4a3n5.fsf@puma.inmos.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net In article <dz4tj4a3n5.fsf@puma.inmos.co.uk>, Richard Ingram <rji@puma.inmos.co.uk> wrote: >Just got hold of a 3/60 and wondered if the Sun port of NetBSD supported the >Iomega Jaz Drive ?? (the version made by D2). Yes. NetBSD/sun3, like most other NetBSD ports, uses a machine-independent SCSI subsystem, which supports most SCSI disks, tapes, and several other types of SCSI devices (scanners, media changers, etc.). >Also what benefits over SunOS 4.1.1 does it have ? Several. First of all, it's much more modern; more modern networking code, filesystem code, etc. Secondly, NetBSD is actively developed by a large number of folks in the network community; SunOS 4 on the sun3 is dead. Thirdly, you get source; the benifits of this should be clear. Ciao. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>