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.