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From: klute@heike-fbi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drives with Removable Media
Keywords: SCSI removable-cartdrige hard drives
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Date: 6 Aug 90 05:54:48 GMT
References: <1990Aug4.130418.16370@wam.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Aug4.130418.16370@wam.umd.edu>, dmb@wam.umd.edu (David
M. Baggett) writes:
>The only concern I have is that I'm not sure how the ST will 
>react to changing the cartridge in the Syquest.  Is "media changed"
>a SCSI command/message?  If so, will the BMS (or PD ICD) driver
>recognize the change?  Or will I have to reboot to load a new
>cartridge?  The same goes for formatting -- will the BMS software
>know how to format a cartridge?

I have a Megafile 44 which I can comment on: If I change the cartridge a
media change is recognized. However, I can continue working with the new
cartridge only if it is partitioned the same way as the boot cartridge.
If the partitions have different sizes a reboot must be done.

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