Syquest

Syquest

Post by Grant Guenth » Wed, 19 May 1999 04:00:00




>does anyone know how to actually get the syquest to work. I have
>compiled it into the kernel. I now just need to know how to mount it and
>get the driver to work. It would be easy if I only had one device on the
>parellel port but I also have a printer.

Please visit http://www.torque.net/parport/ and if nothing there helps,
join the linux-parport mailing list and post a query with some more
information about what device you have and how it fails.

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Syquest

Post by MIke borde » Wed, 19 May 1999 04:00:00


does anyone know how to actually get the syquest to work. I have
compiled it into the kernel. I now just need to know how to mount it and
get the driver to work. It would be easy if I only had one device on the
parellel port but I also have a printer.

Thanks.

Mike Borden

P.S. Do not send email to the address. That is not my email account.

 
 
 

1. Removable Hard Disks (Syquest/Iomega/MO) (was: Re: SyQuest SyJET 1.3Gb SCSI Removable Hard Drive & RS6000's

This is an old thread from Sep96, but I thought I could shed some more
light and ask a question of my own:

I can almost guarentee the SyJET will work, as I have an old 88MB
SyQuest drive that I just got working flawlessly with my AIX4.2 system.

Ed, I've read most of your posts on the subject and I find it
interesting how you've gotten MO drives working like hard disks.  Can
you give more info?  Like is this only because you have an OCU
(presumably a hardware device?) and a OCU-supported drive (your HP-MO?)?

For interests sake, what's the approx US retail price of such items (the
MO and the OCU)?  Will the OCU support any MO drive?

Ed, I wish I had seen your post before I went through about 2 hours of
hair pulling figuring this all out myself!!  The need for rmdev/mkdev
was tricky and took me the longest, but eventually I arrived at the same
conclusion as you.  The good thing about the dinky 88MB SyQuest is that
I can set it for 1MB PP size and only waste 1MB on log LV overhead!  I
get 81MB user space out of each disk, which ain't too bad :)

But boy!  Is it slow!  I measured around 100k/sec sustained.  Ugh.
Lucky I'm just using this for extra space and backups!

Those wishing to read Ed's wonderful outline on how to properly get
removable media working on AIX, do a search on www.dejanews.com for

"Removable SCSI media can be supported in AIX"

I have a question about the SyJET.  I haven't heard of this drive yet,
how new is it?  Capacity is 1.3GB?  How much is the drive and how much
are the carts?  5.25" carts or 3.5"?

Thanks!

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