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- From: Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest
- Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:23:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.052926.25791@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >>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
- what do you expect a ST01 to be? Try an Adaptec and be happy ;-)
- Its not the syquest to lock you system it's the controller!
-
- >>"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.
- Into what do you partition 44MB ? Ugh! Just put the file-system on the
- device not a partition. sd1 instead of sd1a! Partitioning is for disk-sizes
- that are really worth it!
- >>Not that I'm complaining, though.
- If you'd complain, itwould be about your own misunderstandings! ;-) *flame*
-
- prefect
-