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olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>In <basiji.711941162@milton> basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
>| I have a 90PRO transportable and I had to open the small vented front
>| panel and throw a two-position switch so the NeXT could see the Bernoulli
>| as a removable device.  Seems the default position (which suits SGI and 
>| others) of the switch is as non-removeable.  This panel is about 3/4"

>Drives with removable media should be so marked in the inquiry command
>(presumably this is what the switch controls).  Other than our older
>systems that had a bogus bias against removable media for the boot
>device (only), SGI's OS has no problem with devices that say that they
>have removable media.
>--
>Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
>because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

Though the Bernoulli literature explains that only early Sun OS's 
had this problem, it implicated all SGI OS versions.  No slight on
SGI intended (by me, anyway).  Perhaps you folks should contact Iomega
corp to set the record straight.  My literature is dated April 1992
and the phone number given is 1-800-456-5522.
-- 
David Basiji 
"C neophyte, Bioengineering Grad Student, Internet Personality"

email: basiji@u.washington.edu          
NeXTmail: basiji@larry.pathology.washington.edu

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