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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Compatible Removeable SCSI Drives Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:52:06 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4gr07m$9a@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <312FAC67.146F@wcupa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Peter Schwenk <pschwenk@wcupa.edu> wrote: >I have a small FreeBSD machine running INN that I want to be able to backup >periodically. I would like to use either optical or magnetic removeable >disk cartridge drives, and I was wondering if any were compatible. [...] > I'm leaning toward disk cartridges because of >the speed. I think fast tape drives are faster than cartridge disk drives (at least, than MO -- but i wouldn't trust that much to magnetic ones). Either kind of disks is basically compatible, though you might get some unexpected messages, mostly a ``UNIT ATTENTION'' one after changing the medium. There's also an `od' driver available specialized to magneto-optical disks (and potentially also for other removable-media disk drives), but it didn't made it into 2.1R. However, it's available under /xperimnt there (in ``joergs-2.2-stuff'') if you are curious. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)