From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 12: 6:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F66D37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web11606.mail.yahoo.com (web11606.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D875F43E72 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020821190651.15069.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.164.9.200] by web11606.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:06:51 PDT Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) From: manny rosa Subject: USB Zip 250 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is not a question. I just would like to state that SO FAR, my usb zip 250MB drive (the one powered by the USB bus) works with FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE. The reason I'm stating this is because I couldn't find any sort of confirmation in the mailing lists that the device works. Configuration was quite simple. Your kernel must have usb, uhci/ohci, umass, scbuss, and da (maybe the modules can be loaded via loader.conf instead but I haven't tried it). Then, just plug it in. dmesg should then say... umass0: Iomega USB Zip 250, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 650KB/s transfer Note: I don't have any scsi devices so the zip drive is on da0. In my case, mounting a factory-formatted disk... mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 ~/zip/ I've read several "tips" about mounting such drives, such as making sure the drive is plugged in and has a disk inside before booting, etc. Well, I've been "stress-testing" the drive and plug-n-play functionality of usb seems to work just fine. In fact, I booted this computer without the drive. Then I pluged in the drive with no disk and got the following additional message... da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Makes sense since there was no disk in the drive. I then inserted the disk and mounted it without any problems. Then I unmounted it, unplugged it, and plugged it in again with a disk in the drive. dmesg likes that... da0: 239MB (489532 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 239C) Things I haven't (and would like to) tested: * mounting 100MB disks * formatting disk with ufs (it's supposed to perform better) There's my two-cents! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message