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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation
Date: 7 Aug 1995 13:20:15 +0200
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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.)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)