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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
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