From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 13:00:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13782 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from praxis.aaronx.dyn.ml.org (pm6s18.intergate.bc.ca [204.50.101.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13679 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@aaronx.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by aaronx.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03134; Wed, 20 May 1998 08:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980520102845.A10417@ct.picker.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: aaronx@fearme.com Organization: aaronx From: Aaron Yeung To: Randall Hopper Subject: Re: scsi zip drive Cc: Jeremy Shaffner , Julian Elischer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can you please send the scripts :-) oh and btw, how do you eject the zip disk? like just umount it then press eject? On 20-May-98 Randall Hopper wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: aaronx@fearme.com ICQ: 3401083 Date: 20-May-98 Time: 08:25:17 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message