"eric clover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive == ext scsi 50pin
>and thank you for the reply
Congratulations on owning a really nice white elephant. I have the
internal SCSI one on my Linux system and an external one on a Solaris
system at work. It's been a while, but I don't think there is much to
it. It's almost just like another fixed SCSI drive.
(1) Hook it up, and make sure it is properly terminated.
(2) Boot into your SCSI controller BIOS (if you have one--I have a
BusLogic card) and make sure your SCSI controller sees the drive and
knows it's removable.
(3) Boot into Linux. The drive should be the next one in sequence
after any other SCSI drives (but choice of SCSI id may affect that).
The disks come formatted as single-partition vfat file-systems, so if
you have one fixed scsi drive at id 0, the SyJet will be /dev/sdb1.
(You can always reformat the disk to be ext2 instead.)
(4) Create a mount point, e.g., /mnt/jet.
(5) Add an entry in /etc/fstab. Mine looks like:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/jet vfat
user,noexec,dev,nosuid,rw,uid=0,gid=301,perm=775 0 0
The user parameter lets you mount the drive as a regular user. I
tried to make mine group-writable by some users with access to my
other Windows files (hence the gid and perm), but I haven't been able
to make it work right yet. (Suggestions, anyone?)
(5) Mount the drive.
mount /mnt/jet
(If the disk is in place on boot, it will mount automatically. Also,
Gnome seems to know about it and creates a desktop icon for it.)
(6) Enjoy.
(7) Unmount the drive.
umount /mnt/jet
Eject with the button on the front of the drive.
Let me know if you have problems.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>> >hello,
>> >I have a SyQuest SyJet 1.5g removable drive I'd like to get working with
>my
>> >box , it is running rh 6.1.
>> >I have not found any man's or howto's on a SyJet.
>> >anyone have any suggestions on how to get it going , please?
>>
>> What kind is it? Internal/external, IDE/SCSI/Parallel?
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