At 12:35 PM 4/6/96, Sunny Daniels wrote:
>I have heard that 135 megabyte Syquest EZIDrives do not work with MacBSD.
>
>Does anyone know why MacBSD doesn't support them?  Apparently, they work
>fine with the Linux SCSI hard disk driver.  Presumably the source code for
>the Linux SCSI hard disk driver is freely available, so surely it can't be
>too difficult to modify it to work with MacBSD?
The reason "MacBSD doesn't work with them" is because Syquest drives don't
respond to certain SCSI commands, so MacBSD has no way to know the disk
geometry(this also causes problems with the mkfs utility). The Syquest
drives used with Linux are likely IDE rather than SCSI.

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