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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD & JAZ Drive
Date: 20 Jun 1996 06:28:15 +0100
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Mark A. Dorsey (mdorsey1@chelsea.ios.com) wrote:
: Has anyone install FreeBSD on a bootable Jaz drive.  I am tyring to 
: install BSD on a Jaz drive and it keeps telling me that it can not mount 
: the file system after the setup has partition the hard drive.

: If anybody has install FreeBSD on JAZ please let me know how you did it.

It can be done.  A friend of mine has just tried FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.  I
believe the hardware is something like a DX266, 16Mb or more memory, a
AHA1542B and a scsi JAZ.

Is your JAZ scsi ?  For that matter, are all JAZs scsi - I don't know.
If it is, send a follow up and I'll ask him for specifics - or get him
to post.  If it isn't (are there paralell JAZ drives?), I wouldn't
really be surprised that it doesn't work - the golden rule is that
you can't boot from a device that your BIOS can't read at boot time.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....