Re: Using magneto-optical drive on SPARCstation

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From: Wilko Bulte
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00

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jeremyp@gsms01.alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy) writes:

>I have a Ricoh RO-5030E2 magneto-optical drive that I would like to attach to
>an SS20 running Solaris 2.4.  I was rather hoping that the OS would recognize
>it and treat it like a disk drive.  Whilst probe-scsi sees it and reports
>`Removable Device type 7' (which didn't look too hopful to me), the disk
>configuration program doesn't see it and hence I don't have any rdsk device
>for it.

The Ricoh apparantly reports itself as a WORM (I think type 7 is WORM, check
the SCSI standard). Most MO drives can be set to behave like a 'normal' HD
by jumpering or setting a dipswitch. After that has been done format will
probably like it a lot better.

Wilko

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From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: Using magneto-optical drive on SPARCstation
Date: 1996/05/03
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