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Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com> writes:

> I am attempting to format a 100 mb. ZIP disk, but am getting
> nowhere. The ZIP drive worked fine under Windows. The disk is
> presently formatted as NTFS, if that makes any difference. Nothing I
> try seems to work . Since I am new to BSD, I assume that I am using
> the wrong commands.
> 
> I am presently using version 5.2 of BSD. Can anyone assist me.?

"Zip-drives and FreeBSD":
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/index.html

and to some extent

"Formatting media on FreeBSD"
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html