From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 26 12:09:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14029 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14024 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA04675; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:09:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ted Stockwell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jaz drive? In-Reply-To: <199707241742.MAA10443@bambi.visi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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