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- From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:24:46 GMT
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- In article <727748701.AA34908@remote.halcyon.com> Chris.Bugosh@f340.n226.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Bugosh) writes:
- >Can I have some horror/success stories on setting up Linux on either of
- >these two boxes? I'd also know what controller you're using... I hear
- >that the controller that comes with the Bernoulli from Hard Drives
- >International doesn't work. Is the adapter that comes with the SyQuest
- >compatible? Thanks for any/all info.
- >
- >Chris
- >
- > * Origin: The MIDI Exchange - Columbus, Ohio - (614) 846-1274
- >(1:226/340)
- >
-
- I have a SyQuest 44MB attached to a Seagate ST-01 SCSI card in my 486DX
- clone. Up until Linux 0.99pl4, it would not allow me to do any writes to
- the disk without crashing. Now it works, except for a few spurious error
- messages that I believe are harmless.
-
- There are a couple of weaknesses in it though: (1) when a rather large
- buffer cache is being flushed to the Syquest, interrupts are turned off
- and the system in literally locked up until the write is done (which is
- slow since this is a Syquest), and (2) although the Syquest is a
- "mountable" hard disk, the partition table on the cartridge is only
- read once during boot up, so you are out of luck if you want to umount
- and mount a different cartridge while the system is up and running.
-
- Not that I'm complaining, though.
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