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- From: basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Turning off SCSI devices and Rel 2.1
- Message-ID: <basiji.711986940@milton>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:09:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: milton.basiji.711986940
- References: <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us> <1992Jul23.213549.10270@midway.uchicago.edu> <basiji.711941162@milton> <nmf212c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
-
- >In <basiji.711941162@milton> basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
- >| I have a 90PRO transportable and I had to open the small vented front
- >| panel and throw a two-position switch so the NeXT could see the Bernoulli
- >| as a removable device. Seems the default position (which suits SGI and
- >| others) of the switch is as non-removeable. This panel is about 3/4"
-
- >Drives with removable media should be so marked in the inquiry command
- >(presumably this is what the switch controls). Other than our older
- >systems that had a bogus bias against removable media for the boot
- >device (only), SGI's OS has no problem with devices that say that they
- >have removable media.
- >--
- >Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- >because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- > Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-
- Though the Bernoulli literature explains that only early Sun OS's
- had this problem, it implicated all SGI OS versions. No slight on
- SGI intended (by me, anyway). Perhaps you folks should contact Iomega
- corp to set the record straight. My literature is dated April 1992
- and the phone number given is 1-800-456-5522.
- --
- David Basiji
- "C neophyte, Bioengineering Grad Student, Internet Personality"
-
- email: basiji@u.washington.edu
- NeXTmail: basiji@larry.pathology.washington.edu
-
- "Whining is just anger coming out of a very small hole."
- --Stuart Smalley
-