On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > >Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega > >introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they > >call it "Rev", basically a small, removalble hard drive > >cartridge. Think high capacity, tiny zip drive as it has > >35GB native capacity and a builtin compressor. Along with > >their single slot device, they also introduce an autoloader > >that can hold 10 cartridges. > > Funny, I just stumbled upon this on another mailing list yesterday. > Looks like IOMega continues to live up to its reputation: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-July/094114.html
Or someone didn't look hard enough. While most systems device drivers do detect REV drives as CD-ROMs, that doesn't prevent one from writing to it. And while the filesystem format isn't ISO-9660, it's not some Iomega proprietary thing either: it's UDF. Basically, from the system's perspective REV drives look and act like high capacity DVD-RAM units. I've been using one with SuSE Linux for several months now.