Subject: Re: Jaz support (Acorn SCSI-1)
To: RiscBSD Mailing List <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/30/1997 14:01:43
On May 30, 12:34pm, Dan Ellis wrote:
> Subject: Re: Jaz support (Acorn SCSI-1)
> On Fri 30 May, Robert Black wrote:
> > JAZ drives are known to work with the Powertec SCSI-2 card and existing
> > driver. Whether they work with the Cumana or Connect-32 cards is currently
> > unknown. I suspect that they will work with the Cumana straight-off. I have
> > no idea about the Connect-32.
>
> I'm not sure whether you're referring to RiscBSD specifically, but they work
> pretty well off the cumana card under RiscOS.  The only occasional problem is
> that they fail to spin up unless you access them through the filer (although
> I can imagine this might cause problems...)

I did mean under RiscBSD. JAZ drives do slightly odd things so they can break
some SCSI drivers.

Cheers

Rob