From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 02:08:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA26960 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 02:08:46 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA26954 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 02:08:39 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id FAA14343; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 05:07:53 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199506090907.FAA14343@hda.com> Subject: Re: IOMega ZIP drive experiences To: obrien@leonardo.net (Mike O'Brien) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 05:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506090348.UAA00323@caern.protocorp.com> from "Mike O'Brien" at Jun 8, 95 08:48:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2959 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mike O'Brien writes: > > At first I booted up without a disk in the drive. This is what > I got: > (...) > caern kernel: aha0 targ 5 lun 0: type 0(direct) removable SCSI2 > caern kernel: aha0 targ 5 lun 0: > caern kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): illegal request > caern kernel: sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry > caern kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): not ready > caern kernel: sd1: could not get size > caern kernel: sd1: 0MB (0 total sec), 0 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, bytes/sec 512 With no disk it can't get the size. This makes sense, since I assume they have different size disks. > Inserting a disk in the drive and attempting to dd /dev/rsd1c to > /dev/null netted me a couple of: > Jun 7 19:42:24 caern kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): not ready > Jun 7 19:42:24 caern kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): not ready Is it formatted? If not, this makes sense also. On 2.05 you could try formatting it. > So, I shoved a (formatted, blank, 100Mb) fat diskette in the drive and > rebooted. This time, things got a bit further: > (...) > caern kernel: aha0 targ 5 lun 0: type 0(direct) removable SCSI2 > caern kernel: aha0 targ 5 lun 0: > caern kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): illegal request > caern kernel: sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry > caern kernel: sd1: 96MB (196608 total sec), 96 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, bytes/sec 512 Good; I assume that is the right number of sectors. > This time, trying the 'dd' just got me: > > dd: /dev/rsd1c: Device not configured I'm not sure which partitions you can access without a label. > Another interesting point is that the IOMega toolkit lets you > mark a diskette as 'non-removable', presumably so you can just use the > whole thing as a sort of oddball hard drive. Whatever 2.0R does in > attempting to probe the device obviously convinces the ZIP drive that > this has been done, because pressing the little button does not allow the > diskette to be ejected as long as UNIX is running. The open driver entry does a "prevent removal". At least the 2.05 code does "allow removal" if the open fails. Bruce added some fixes for tracking open slices that might fix something like this; > I was hoping that a SCSI disk would be a SCSI disk, or at least > close enough to let me back up my system (I'm the guy who's always > whining that his Colorado Jumbo 350 doesn't work under UNIX either). > Apparently not. So 2.0.5 is going to leave me to back my system up on > lots and LOTS of floppies, but what the hey. I'll be willing to work > with anyone who thinks they can figure out what to do to the SCSI > driver to get the ZIP drive working, either before or after 2.0.5. Are you running 2.05? The boot messages don't look like that 2.05. Don't give up yet. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267