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- From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: SCSI status? (Multiple partitions, tape drive)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.202521.14982@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <BtCJJF.MMs@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:25:21 GMT
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- In article <BtCJJF.MMs@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca> pundsack@sun15.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Mark Pundsack) writes:
- >I've been out of the group lately and I was wondering what the status of
- >the SCSI support was. I hadn't seen anything posted about it.
- >
- >Does the SCSI support allow more than 4 hard drive partitions?
-
- Yes.
-
- >Is there any tape drive support yet? or is that waiting for general tape
-
- No.
-
- >drive support? The 0.96 release used to recognize my tape drive, but
-
- No. Some one has a tape driver for SCSI tapes under testing. Tape
- support will get in when either
- 1. This is done
- 2. The rewrite is done, and I can elegantly do SCSI/I/O directly
- to user space because of the memory mapping allowed.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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