Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:09:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ted Stockwell <stockwel@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jaz drive? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726120803.4628G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199707241742.MAA10443@bambi.visi.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Ted Stockwell wrote: > I'm trying to use a Jaz drive with FreeBSD 2.2.1 and an adaptec 1542 > scsi controller. The drive behaves fine when I boot Windows 95, but I > can't seem to make a disk usable under FreeBSD. I found some old mail > in the archives which gave some steps (scsiformat, disklabel, newfs), > which did not work. The disklabel fails unless I go in with fdisk and > change some things. When I get the disklabel to succeed, then the > newfs will hang after printing a few backup superblocks, at which > point the whole system is wedged and must be a power cycled. Hm, these should work OK with no special changes needed. I believe I've seen some mail that suggests the adapted 15xx code isn't as bugfree as it could be. Plus, check your termination and such. To format it for UFS, take a look at http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html (no tilde) 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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