From: Markus Wischerath (mw@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE)
Date: 05/07/93


From: mw@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Markus Wischerath)
Subject: Re: Syquest Removeable Drive
Date: 7 May 1993 19:13:09 GMT


In article <1993May5.185805.17232@moko.saar.de>, micha@moko.saar.de (Michael Bongartz) writes:

|> fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
|> : irene kung (pagan@maris) wrote:
|> : : Hello to the world of Linux (and a great world it is too)
|> : : i've just installed Linux and am having a fantastic time, except for one
|> : : small problem (aren't there always problems with paradise?) i can't
|> : : get my removeable drive to mount. if anyone has had any success mounting
|> : : a syquest removeable drive, please send email to pagan@ucrengr.ucr.edu
|> : : thank you in advance.
|> :
|> : I haven't tried this recently but I did it with .98 with no problem.
|> : You do have to have a disk in the drive at boot time or it won't tell the
|> : world it exists. Once that is done you should be able to mount and
|> : unmount at will.
|>
|> It's no problem to boot the system w/o a disk in the drive. After inserting
|> a disk, you can mount it.
|>
|> Michael

Well, which controller do you have, then? It doesn't work on my 1542b.

markus