From: keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Linux and 1 GB optical rewritable drives - opinions needed. Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 02:08:42 GMT
In article <24JUN199318475236@jane.uh.edu> mece2b0@jane.uh.edu (Laskowski, Grezegorz) writes:
>
>Hello. I would like to know rather Tahiti I GB drive is
>compatible with Linux operating system. The drive can
>format either 512 byte sectors or 1024 byte.
>I am interested in use in configuration with
>Adaptec 1740 host adapter. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Works fine. Wanna buy one? (Tahiti-I). Little note here you may not
realize about MO drives. You get 500K _PER_ _SIDE_ and can only access
ONE side at a time without removing the disk and flipping it over.
Hehehehe, Welcome to the advertising gimmick. The Tahiti-I will
actually give you around 440MB (base 2 Mega's) on each side. Same goes
for % formatted losses on the 650MB (325 per side) stuff, which net
around 280 per side. Note that the Tahiti-I/II can r/w the ISO 650 stuff
too.
Now that that is cleared up if you get ANY MO drive to use as a root FS
I hope you are a patient sort. I would not suggest swapping onto a MO
either. :( :( :(. (painful).
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