From: Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek) Subject: Re: Bernoulli/SyQuest Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:23:58 GMT
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