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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks (the competition)
Message-ID: <2969@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 14:40:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.2969
Posted: Thu Apr 30 14:40:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 05:18:58 EDT
References: <8704181043.AA14428@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 32
Keywords: diskchange
Summary: Have we forgotten something?

In article <3387@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>You ought to be able to take an scsi controller/driver system (Xebec,
>say, as that's what sitting next to this system), + a bernoulli that
>speaks scsi, and tweak the mountlist/parameters/whatever file. It
>shouldn't require writing a driver. But check with whoever you buy it
>from.
>
	I think you will have to write some sort of driver for it.  Unlike
conventional hard disks, Bernoullis can be unmounted.  Unless a standard
SCSI driver takes this into account and does The Right Thing, you'll either
have to write your own driver (which is probably a good idea in any case) to
generate a DISKCHANGED signal, or use the 'DiskChange' command every time
you change volumes (yuck!).

	Other than that, I'd love to have a Bernoulli box plugged into my
Amiga.  I could keep the entire Fish library on just a few "packs."  I could
keep all my weird hacks on one disk (currently, they're spread over three
floppies, and I can't remember what's on what).....

	I'm waiting, IOmega.....

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