From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 13:53:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1638C14D9B for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id QAA14153; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:54:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907102054.QAA14153@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Mounting Jaz/Zip In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990710103442.0097acc0@pop3.clark.net> from Mark Thomas at "Jul 10, 99 10:34:42 am" To: thomas@clark.net (Mark Thomas) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:54:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Thomas wrote, [snip] > 1. Are the timeout/reset messages a problem? Not absolutely sure, but I do not think they are a problem. > 2. What would be the proper invocation of mount_msdos to mount these > devices. Various attempts such as: mount_msdos /dev/da2 /mnt or mount_msdos > /dev/da2c /mnt all fail with: > > mount_msdos: /dev/da2[whatever]: Invalid argument If these are using the default MSDOS formating that they come with, you need to, # mount -t msdos /dev/da2s4 /mnt That is, mount slice 4. Look at its fdisk to see why. Personally, any Jaz drive that I will be using exclusively on FreeBSD, I reformat with UFS. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message