From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 5 18:59:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09786 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09746 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from sonata.uucp.kew.com (sonata.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.135]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA05512; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 21:59:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kew.com by sonata.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13c) with UUCP for multiple addressees; Sun, 05 Jul 1998 21:59:18 -0500 Received: from kew.com by sonata.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13c) with ESMTP for multiple addresses; Sun, 05 Jul 1998 21:59:17 -0500 Message-ID: <35A02F74.308B1C84@kew.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 21:59:16 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-MOENE (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP disks and kernel errors References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > > I'm trying to initialize a new pile of zip disks; the ZIP drive is the only > > SCSI device on a 1542 under FreeBSD 2.2.6: > > > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: (aha0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 N*32" type 0 > > removable SCSI 2 > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): Direct-Access > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 > > Invalid field in CDB > > Jul 4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using > > ficticious geometry > > Jul 4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors) > > > > I have run fdisk on the disk with the following results: > > > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > 1: > > 2: > > 3: > > 4: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > start 32, size 196576 (95 Meg), flag 0 > > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > > end: cyl 95/ sector 32/ head 63 > > Any reason you need an fdisk table? The usual reasons for not creating a dangerously dedicated disk, in particular insuring that MS operating systems understand that the disk has a valid format even if they can't read it. In addition, the quoted post by Justin Gibbs specifically took this method. (See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=321222+323525+/usr/local/www/db/text/1995/freebsd-questions/19950820.freebsd-questions). > Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat for one method > that works. My general requirement is the ability to label this disk from the command line; the suggested tutorial doesn't seem to allow this, given the errors I am seeing (whcih you deleted in your response). -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 "A little voice inside my head said don't look back, You can never look back . . ." - Don Henley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message