Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:27:58 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Simon Coggins <chaos@ultra.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IOMEGA ZIP IDE Drive, Detected but not assigned a device.. WHY? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971030012552.9779B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971030181001.18782C-100000@ultra.ultra.net.au>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Simon Coggins wrote: > > Heya, > > I just purchased an IDE ZIP drive (yeah yuk people say but it was cheap > enough).. I'm having the problem that it's detected on boot up buty isn't > assigned to a device.. > > EG: > > wdc0: .... > wdc0: unit 0 maxtor...... > wd0: 1024 mesg ... drive geom.. > wdc0: uni 1 IOMEGA ATAPI ZIP .... > <rest of devices> > > it doesn't assign it anything i can access in /dev :/ > eh? of course not! teh kernel never makes entries in /dev that's up to you to do.. have you tried using /dev/rwd1? if it doesn't work then I guess we have work to do.. > Help please! :) > > Regards > Simon > > PS: Please make sure replies are CC'ed to me as I'm not on this list yet > (still waiting aproval) > > > >
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