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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>
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Subject: Re: ZIP disks and kernel errors
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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote:

> I'm trying to initialize a new pile of zip disks; the ZIP drive is the only
> SCSI device on a 1542 under FreeBSD 2.2.6:
> 
> Jul  4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> Jul  4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: (aha0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 N*32" type 0
> removable SCSI 2
> Jul  4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): Direct-Access
> Jul  4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> Invalid field in CDB
> Jul  4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using
> ficticious geometry
> Jul  4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors)            
> 
> I have run fdisk on the disk with the following results:
> 
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
> 4: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 32, size 196576 (95 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
>         end: cyl 95/ sector 32/ head 63  

Any reason you need an fdisk table?

Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat for one method
that works.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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