On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 15:27 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "TNWestTex" <mcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, 2009/December/22 13:16 > > > > > > > > Steven Ringwald-3 wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:29 -0600, Mikkel wrote: > >>> My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if > >>> you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition. > >>> What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted > >>> for. Windows was partition 4, Linux was partition 1, and I don't > >>> remember what MAC used. (It might not have used a DOS-type partition > >>> table.) > >> > >>> I also remember removable platter SCSI drives that pre-dated ZIP > >>> drives, but I can not remember what they were called. The didn't have > >>> nearly as much capacity, and the cartridges were larger. I think I > >>> still have a couple in storage somewhere... > >> > >>> > >>> I believe you are talking about the IoMega Jaz drive... > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega_Jaz > >> > > > > Jaz at 1G was a latecomer, Iomega Bernoulli at 44M. several years before > > Zip > > drives. Concurrent with Jaz drives were 1.5 GB SyQuest SyJet drives. Superior technology, IIRC, bigger, faster, more reliable than Jaz. I just took one out of service in a home machine, though I haven't really used it in quite a while. > > > > Robert McBroom > > And they tripped an interesting chip bug in the Adaptec SCSI chips > that we were using for the Microbotics hard disk controller for Amigas. > That was a bastard to track down until somebody smuggled to me the > Adaptec internal bugs tradeoff sheet for Rev C, D, and E of that chip. > No, none of them had "no bugs". It was a tradeoff. > > (Otherwise, at the time, that controller and some nice 300 Meg SCSI > drives from a now defunct manufacturer in The Valley (San Fernando) > made for the fastest read and write times on disk tests that anybody > had published for ANY machine mortals could afford.) > > {^_^} (Yeah, I'm THAT Joanne Dow.) Hi, Joanne--haven't seen you around in a while 8^). -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
