Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:28:45 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: aaronx@fearme.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com> Subject: Re: problems mounting iomega scsi zip drive Message-ID: <19980520102845.A10417@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980516160825.aaronx@fearme.com>; from Aaron Yeung on Sat, May 16, 1998 at 04:08:25PM -0700 References: <XFMail.980516160825.aaronx@fearme.com>
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Aaron Yeung:
| ok the scsi iomega zip drive works now, i have recompiled my
|kernel with scbus0 and sd0 uncommented, and when i try to mount it or
|someone told me to do disklabel -r /dev/sd0, the zip drive makes a noise,
|and gives an error.
Just read the whole thread, and I'm a little surprised no-one has been able
to give you the right answer yet.
If this is a stock ZIP disk that hasn't been reformatted, the DOS FAT (aka
"msdos") file system slice is going to be on Slice #4. So what you want is:
mkdir /zip
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip
You can run "fdisk sd0" to double-check where it is.
Of course, if you want you can reformat the disk so that a DOS FAT file
system is attached to any of these slices (1-4), or you can put a FreeBSD
UFS file system on the disk instead and attach it to any of these slices
(1-4). The latter gives you long filenames, UNIX permissions, etc.
If you want a script that'll cook UFS ZIP disks in FreeBSD, just let me
know. I too have a SCSI ZIP on sd0.
You can also insert an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab so that normally all
you need to do is type "mount /zip" and it'll do the "mount -t msdos
/dev/sd0s4 /zip" for you. Let me know if you'd like me to mail it to you.
Finally I have a few cheesy setuid perl scripts I can mail you too so you
can mount and unmount your ZIP disks without having to become root first.
Again, just let me know.
Randall
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