Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:41:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question for zip IDE users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901234003.3114W-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709020512.WAA12394@psln1.psln.com>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote: > Hi, > I am having some problems with my IDE ZIP drive. I thought you could mount > then unmount, then remount with another disk to access different zip disks, > like with all other removable media, but if I do when I try this I get: > #mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /zip > #ls /zip > archive1 contents.txt > #umount /zip > #mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /zip > /dev/wd1s1: IO error (this isn't exactly the message, but it is similar) `Input/Output error', or `bad magic'? Apparently the Zip is getting into an inconsistent state. Is this using a new disk or trying to re-mount the old disk? I didn't know that IDE ZIPs worked; what does the probe message look like? It may be that the kernel doesn't recognize it as removable device and thinks it's a normal hard disk instead. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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