MO support

[jim stephens]

Don Y wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have several (different) MO drives -- including
> a small jukebox.
>
> But, it seems that most OS's don't have support
> for them -- usually the BLOCKSIZE != 512 issue
> is the killer.
>
> Amusingly, *Windows* seems to talk to all of them
> (but that is my last choice!).  I believe Linux
> will, as well (but I don't want to run Linux).
>
> [I think I would prefer to get them running
> under Solaris or NetBSD]
>
> So, given that these devices have been around for
> ages, what was talking to them?
>

don,
from your list above what "most" os's dont support
the MO devices?  I dont recall having any problem
with SCSI attached MO drives that I have used since
at least with PC platforms, they are mapped to being
bios supported units.

Maybe non PC platforms?  I used them with Solaris
on sparcstations, and with HPUX, and AIX on their
respective platforms to interchnge data.

There was a jukebox support program distributed
that I used one time that would issue commands to
the jukebox devices, but most of the time I used
MO drives only.

Jim