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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.interlog.com!news From: "Joe Jackson" <jjackson@tnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: two problems Date: 9 Oct 1996 19:13:04 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 16 Message-ID: <01bbb616$aeae12c0$ee4b6cce@me.interlog.com> References: <01bbb3c2$5b544fa0$ee4b6cce@me.interlog.com> <53egqd$fu4@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mikewa.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 > I use a jaz drive in the same way. (You're right, it is way cool. :-) ) > Anyways, I think that the problem is that unless told to do otherwise by > the iomega drivers, the drive reports itself as removable which confuses > FreeBSD's drive detection (and some Microsoft installers. Try putting > MS Office onto one of those things.) I think that the confusion is > compounded by the fact that the jaz accepts two different size cartriges > (540 MB and 1 GB). I think the drive works around it by reporting some > "assumed" or fictitios geometry. That's my theory, anyway. good to finally find out the name of the other jaz owner :)...anyways...i was reading through Boot and SCSI source code and read somewhere that all removable drives on the adaptec bus are treated this way (or something...i can't exactly quote since i am in win95 right now!!)...i find that reading source seems to answer 9 out of 10 hardware problem questions!!!...