From: dcuka@cbnewse.cb.att.com (david.a.cuka) Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest Date: 3 Feb 1993 17:35:45 GMT
In article <C1s497.1JM0@austin.ibm.com> jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) 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
Here is a success story. I just installed SLS dated 1/29/93 last night.
I have Bernoulli 90 (88M cartridges) and an Adaptec 1542B SCSI host adapter.
I had a cartridge partitioned under 0.98 into two 44Mb spaces, but 0.98
was unable to mount the disk. Under 0.99pl4, I made a file system and
it mounted no problem. I backed up my old system onto one of the
partitions and installed the new SLS release. Works Great!!!!
A couple of nice things, Linux will not let me remove the disk without
unmounting it first. If I push the eject/spindown button, nothing
happens. Therefore, I am in no danger of swapping disks without syncing.
Also, when I mount a new disk, I get a message informing me that the disk
was changed. Very nice. Now if the it would just spin the drive down
after 30 minutes of inactivity, it would be perfect.
Regarding the IHA90 that came with the Bernoulli. It works under DOS.
That is all. I managed to come up with a routine to detect the card
under Linux (by scanning for ROM sigs), but the 1542 is MUCH nicer.
Tech support from IOMEGA on this was nil...
BTW, If you use the IHA90 and then switch to a 1542, be prepared to back
up ALLL of your data because the 1542 uses a partition table and the
IHA90 does not. Or do what I did and move everything to the HD and
then swap controllers and move it the disk cartridge. Repeat for each
cartridge... :)
Last night I also plugged in a cartidge that I had partitioned under
DOS using the afdisk that came with the Adaptec. I mounted it with
mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt
and it worked just fine!!!
Dave
OLP (Obligatory Linux Praise)
Great work!!!!