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#! rnews 2534 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!usenet From: "John" <noone@nowhere.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Jazz Drives Date: 25 Jan 1997 21:24:46 GMT Organization: MeMyself&I Lines: 43 Message-ID: <01bc0b05$f4a30e40$3c8f6f80@borg_homeworld> References: <5c4vt6$g1d@nr1.toronto.istar.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: d-60.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34512 G., I'm running FreeBSD off of a Jaz drive, with the NCR 53C810 controller. I have had a couple of hiccups with this system that I can't explain: 1. Everytime the system boots BSD, I get the following message when the NCR driver does its probe on the Jaz drive: sd1(ncr0:2:0) illegal request asc:24,0 invalid field in CDB sd1(ncr0:2:0) could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry I have no idea what "ficticious geometry" is. It doesn't sound good, but BSD seems to run ok, and the disk partition/labeling portion of installation reported the correct size of the Jaz drive. 2. On one occasion, *Something* corrupted the entire BSD file system. I'm not sure, but I think it happened when I mounted my FAT drive and moved (with the mv command) a .tgz file over onto the BSD side. After the move, the .tgz file was unreadable. And of course it was gone from the FAT side, so I couldn't check the integrity of the original file. Shortly after that, I discovered the root file system was also trashed. Outside of those 2 things, BSD works ok with the Jaz/NCR combo. As far as performance is concerned, I have nothing to compare this system with. In general though, I'm pleased as punch with the Jaz drive; I run BSD off of it, and I have my entire Windows NT development environment on a separate cartridge. It's noisier than hell, but it's at least as fast as my fixed SCSI drive. Hope this helps, -John. G.Mckenzie <weaver@peterboro.net> wrote in article <5c4vt6$g1d@nr1.toronto.istar.net>... > Can someone please inform me if they have attempted to run FBSD off of a > Iomega Jazz Drive and if they recommend external or internal. What SCSi > card do they recommend, will a NCR work ok with this models? What was is > your opinion in regards to performance for running an OS??? > Any info is greatly appreciated. > Thanx > G. Mckenzie > weaver@peterboro.net / cegsm@blaze.trentu.ca >