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In article <DMrELt.Jw6@indigo.co.il>,
	eran@hobbit.indigo.co.il (Eran Bahat) writes:
> 
> Good Day,
> 
> 	We're looking for a UNIX driver for MOD on Solaris environment.
> Here are a few more details of how we work and what we need.
> 	First of all, the device, a few details copied from some technical 
> notes : We're working with a magneto-optical disk (MOD) drive, standard SCSI 
> I or II switchable, of type Sony SMO-F531. It accepts a 5.25 inch erasable 
> magneto-optical disk conforming to ISO/IEC 13549 and ICO/IEC 10089 Format A.
> It communicates with a shot system via XSCSI which complies with ANSI X3.131-1986, the Common Command Set (CCS) Rev. 4B and SCSI-2 Rev 10h.
> 	Currently to read from and write on the MOD, we're using an 
> application called TransferPro produced by a company named Digital 
> Instrumentation Technology, Inc.. We're working with Sun workstations
> of different types : Classics, Sparc4, Sparc20, IPX and Ultra, all with 
> Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.
> 	We need a UNIX driver that would allow us to use the regular UNIX 
> IO system calls (open, close, read, write etc.) directly to this device -
> either as a block device, or preferably - a higher level application that 
> allows mounting the MOD so that we could refer to it as if it was the 
> computer's hard-disk (i.e. with a full file-system).
> 	Any information will be accepted with gratitude.

I have a Fujitsu M2511A MOD on Solaris x86 2.4, and it works just like
any other disk, without any additional drivers. Solaris actually
locks the disk in the drive when it mounts it, and unlocks it when
it is unmounted. The 'eject' command works on it too, but I havn't
tried it under the volume manager.

I did see a comment from someone else that it's replacement (M2512A)
did not work on their system - I sent a mail asking some more questions
to see why, but got no reply.

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