Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:42:01 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive Message-ID: <ade45ae91002230942h2735bba0j3004869be8dfaef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B840AD0.4070203@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> References: <4B82E9DC.5010707@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <4B840AD0.4070203@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
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On 2/23/10, Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote: >> Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm >> having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. >> >> OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. >> Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with >> the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything >> in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is >> being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of > <snip> > > OK, upon a second reboot (for something unrelated), the device is > detected (but I think only because I had the disk in the drive at the > time). Now I'm having mount issues. First, it's entry in dmesg: > > afd0: 95MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI 13.A> at ata0-slave PIO0 > > I'm issuing the following command with the following results: > > mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0 /mnt/zip > mount_msdosfs: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument Could be due to that the zip disks have a partition defined. ls /dev/afd0* file -s /dev/afd0 > The man page for mount and mount_msdosfs gives no clue on why that's an > invalid argument. When executed, the drive is accessed, then a moment > later it errors out as above. I've tried afd1 through afd4, I just get > no such file or directory errors. > > I'd like to use the zip drive to back up my private keys from GnuPG and > other important data.
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