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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation
Message-ID: <DD3M3M.K2D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <DCqoMK.Byv@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3vr3fr$234@agate.berkeley.edu> <404stf$jbh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:11:34 GMT
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The message from Jordan quoted below hasn't shown up here (the UK
newsfeed seems to be in a pretty bad state recently).  If it contains
any more than what's quoted, could someone forward it to me?

In article <404stf$jbh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>>>(7) (Unrelated to installation.) Does FreeBSD support Syquest or
>>>    Iomega cartridge drives?  Do the SCSI versions just look like
>>>    disk drives?
>>
>>I believe so, but cannot personally verify it.

>Despite of some warnings about (probably) invalid fdisk partition
>tables and the usual UNIT ATTENTION condition after the cartridge
>change, they should work.  (I've been playing somewhat with MO's, and
>that's just the overall opinion.)

Thanks,
 == Richard

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