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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:13:17 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Joseph Lewis <sharktooth@innocent.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Iomega Zip Drive is ad, not afd
Message-ID:  <20020206211316.GG1066@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020206201252.5104.qmail@iname.com>
References:  <20020206201252.5104.qmail@iname.com>

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In the last episode (Feb 07), Joseph Lewis said:
> Mounting the ATA (Indeed, the BIOS boot up reports it as a removable
> Hard Disk), works fine, the first time I boot into FreeBSD.  When I
> umount it, and then re-mount a zip disk, either the same one or a new
> one, the drive's access light turns on, and I get some IO errors at
> the console.  I cannot umount it, nor get any response out of the
> eject button (I guess a not-so-important observation on my part).  I
> have to shut down in order to get the zip disk back, or to use the
> drive a second time.  When I used the afd device, it functioned
> perfectly.  Is there a mount procedure or special step that is not
> synonymous with regular floppies or hard disks?  What kind of
> /etc/fstab entry should I have?  It currently reads:
> 
> /dev/ad4s4    /mnt/zip   msdos   rw,noauto,noexec,nodev   0   0
> 
> dmesg out put reads:
> ad4: 96MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100> [512/12/32] at ata-master PIO0
> 
> The error recieved on the second mounting of the device reads:
> ad4s4c: hard error reading fsbn 1 (ad4s4 bn 1; cn 0 tn 0 sn 1) status=59 error=20
> ad4s4c: hard error reading fsbn 32 of 0-3 (ad4s4 bn 32; cn 0 tn 1 sn 0) status=51  error=00

I seem to remember a coworker having a similar problem with his ATA
zip.  I think he just replaced it with an ATAPI one.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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