Greetings and Irrigations!

>So if disktab is to stay, who will maitain it...since SCSI is not an
>architecture independant standard, but geometrys tend to vary depending on
>the hardware interface.


Hmmm.. I was unaware of that.  Are you saying that if I buy a SCSI ZIP 
drive I won't be able to use the media written on that drive on an
ATAPI ZIP drive?  That *seems* highly unlikely... (?)

>i.e., will a zip250 or zip100/scsi on a Sun box have the same specs as a
>250 ATAPI or USB on i386.
>
>Will there be a different disktab(5) database for each platform?


AFAIK, there already *is*!
--don