In article <367@phavl.UUCP> rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom) writes:
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>In article <C1FCLA.1vFD@austin.ibm.com> jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) writes:
>
> [ various details on running Syquest ]
>>slow since this is a Syquest), and (2) although the Syquest is a
>>"mountable" hard disk, the partition table on the cartridge is only
>>read once during boot up, so you are out of luck if you want to umount
>>and mount a different cartridge while the system is up and running.
>
>Then is it possible to change cartridges while up, if they are partitioned
>the same?
>-- 
>rob   Robert Ransbottom
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Yes, it is true now, and the cartridges don't even have to have
identical partition tables because the mount rereads the partition
table. My comments were on an older version of Linux (SLS 0.98). Eric
Youngdale has done some excellent work on getting the Syquest quite
useable.

john

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