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<title>Hardware Related</title>
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<sect1 id="FAQHARDWARERELATE"><title>10.5. Hardware Related</title>
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<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN698">Can Mondo handle
CD-RW?</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN703">Does Mondo
support tape drives?</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN708">Does Mondo
support my tape drive??</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN713">How do I copy the
floppy images from the CD to floppy disks?</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN722">Sometimes, my
laptop won't mount Mondo CD properly, or something.
Umm...</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN727">Does Mondo
support RAID?</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN732">Where is my CD
burner, in SCSI terms?</ulink></para></term>
<varlistentry><term>Q:
<para><ulink url="faqhardwarerelated.html#AEN740">Can Mondo handle
SCSI devices?</ulink></para></term>
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<para><anchor id="AEN698"/>Q: Can Mondo handle CD-RW?</para>
<para>A: Yes. Use '-Ow &lt;speed&gt; &lt;device&gt;' to make it
work.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN703"/>Q: Does Mondo support tape
drives?</para>
<para>A: Yes. See above.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN708"/>Q: Does Mondo support my tape
drive?</para>
<para>A: If your tape drive and its firmware and the kernel-level
driver support fopen(), fread(), fwrite() and fclose() - standard C
library calls - then yes, Mondo should support it. If not, well,
you need a refund. :) Mondo plays nicely with any sane, sensible
drives. That's most of them, by the way. :) If your drive doesn't
play nicely with Mondo then you may try tinkering with setblksize
and defblksize using 'mt', or tweaking Mondo's block size by
recompiling it with make INTTAPE=4096 or INTTAPE=8192 or something.
Other than that, you need a priest or a refund.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN713"/>Q: How do I copy the floppy images from
the CD to floppy disks?</para>
<para>A: Mount the CD-ROM, e.g. at /mnt/cdrom. Insert a blank
floppy. Type:</para>
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bash# cd /mnt/cdrom/imagesbash# dd if=mindi-boot.1722.img of=/dev/fd0u1722 

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<para>Insert another blank floppy and type:</para>
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bash# dd if=mindi-data-1.img of=/dev/fd0u1722 

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<para>Do the above for each 'mindi-data' disk image.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN722"/>Q: Sometimes, my laptop won't mount
Mondo CD properly, or something. Umm...</para>
<para>A: Please insert the CD, close the CD-ROM tray, wait a few
seconds and then press Enter to acknowledge insertion of the next
CD. Your laptop is on crack and is sucking a little too hard on the
pipe.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN727"/>Q: Does Mondo support RAID?</para>
<para>A: Yes. You may backup and restore RAID systems. You may also
backup a non-RAID system and restore as RAID (or vice versa) by
using the mountlist editor to edit your RAID and non-RAID
partitions and their settings. Mondo will do the partitioning and
formatting for you.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN732"/>Q: Where is my CD burner, in SCSI
terms?</para>
<para>A: Type:</para>
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bash# cdrecord -scanbus 

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<para>Find your CD burner's device# (e.g. '0,0,0'). Call Mondo with
the switch '-Oc &lt;speed&gt;' -d '&lt;device&gt;'. Or, if you feel
lucky, just use '-Oc 2'; Mondo will (a) assume you want to write at
4x to</para>
<para>a CD-R and (b) will do its best to find your CD
burner.</para>
<para><anchor id="AEN740"/>Q: Can Mondo handle SCSI devices?</para>
<para>A: Mondo should be able to handle almost any hardware. So
long as your kernel and modules support it, Mindi will support it
and therefore so will Mondo.</para>
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