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- From: burley@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SCSI WORM Support?
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:40:10
- Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Somebody's selling a used WORM drive, an 800MB one, along with some
- cartridges. This might be really helpful for my project (GNU Fortran),
- even though I have a 1.2GB disk, I have lots of archival data I want
- to keep around (just in case someone sues me saying I ripped GNU Fortran
- off of them, I can show how it developed over the past several years).
-
- Info I have so far:
-
- Storage Dimensions (Maxtor RXT 800 HS) WORM
- External 800 MB SCSI Drive
-
- I already have an Adaptec AHA-1740 with one Maxtor PO-12S drive, so
- presumably I could just install this WORM as Target 1 or something.
-
- But, I'm not sure whether that'll really work from a hardware/driver
- perspective, and...I'm pretty sure WORM drives need a special file
- system especially with regards writing data to them. Or, at least a
- driver so I could write successive .tar.Z files to a cartridge or
- something.
-
- Any info on this? It's not in the FAQ that I have on my system right now.
-
- BTW, I'm willing to do the coding of a new driver or filesystem to
- accommodate WORM if I can be assured of getting the basic technical
- info I need.
-
- tq vm, (burley)
- --
-
- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) lpf@uunet.uu.net
-