Re: JAZ on an INDY

Phil Williams (williams@irc.chmcc.org)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:33:40 -0400

I have a JAZ installed on my INDY and on an Indigo2. I got the ZIP utils
package from the website below and followed the directions. I hacked the
code up a bit so that it the mount points correctly (i.e. jaz instead of
zip) and can be called with a flag to set up the directory structure needed
for ParaVision to find the directory.

The website is: <http://wwwwww.aem.umn.edu/people/faculty/shiled/zip>

They are pretty fast and I noticed next to no difference if I save data
directly to the JAZ or to my hard disk. You do have to be careful not to
eject them while they are mounted or you can wreak havoc w/ the filesystem.
I'm also careful to be sure to unmount and eject once finished for the day.

Good Luck,
Phil
>Does anyone have installed a JAZ on an INDY?
>This offers 1Gbyte available for working and archiving at about normal
>access speed for a hard disk.
>IOMEGA claims that their disk can be installed on any environnement, i.e.
>Unix, Windows and MacOS.
>The two last we have done in the lab. Unix, we have tried to find the
>relevant information and procedures at IOMEGA. Unfortunately our first try
>has been done on a Sun under Sun OS 4.1 an old object. WE couldn't get it
>functionning. But we hope that under an Indy it may work.
>If anyone has some experience or good contacts, this will be very useful.
>Thanks to you all.
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Francis TAULELLE
>RMN et Chimie du Solide, Universit=E9 Louis Pasteur
>4 Rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France
>Mailto:taulelle@chimie.u-stasbg.fr
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