2 Jun
2006
2 Jun
'06
6:05 a.m.
Don Y wrote:
Hi,
I have several (different) MO drives -- including
a small jukebox.
But, it seems that most OS's don't have support
for them -- usually the BLOCKSIZE != 512 issue
is the killer.
Amusingly, *Windows* seems to talk to all of them
(but that is my last choice!). I believe Linux
will, as well (but I don't want to run Linux).
[I think I would prefer to get them running
under Solaris or NetBSD]
So, given that these devices have been around for
ages, what was talking to them?
don,
from your list above what "most" os's
dont support
the MO devices? I dont recall having any problem
with SCSI attached MO drives that I have used since
at least with PC platforms, they are mapped to being
bios supported units.
Maybe non PC platforms? I used them with Solaris
on sparcstations, and with HPUX, and AIX on their
respective platforms to interchnge data.
There was a jukebox support program distributed
that I used one time that would issue commands to
the jukebox devices, but most of the time I used
MO drives only.
Jim