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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:14:53 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lynn <dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Iomega JAZ 1G Tape... 
Message-ID:  <199810161714.KAA00902@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:59:08 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981016125231.6191A-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> 

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This should have been sent to -questions, whence I have redirected it.

> Does anyone out there know what it takes to enable a Jaz
> tape drive on 2.2.7?  Is it simply a matter of specifying the
> type in mount and/or should the kernel have a line of info.

The Jaz is a disk drive, not a tape.  You don't mount tape drives 
anyway.

> Kernel output goes like this:
> 
> (ahc0:5:0): "iomega jaz 1GB J.83" type 0 removable SCSI 2
> sd2(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access 
> sd2(ahc0:5:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present
> sd2: could not get size
> sd2(ahc0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using fictitious geometry
> 
> But that's WITHOUT a cartridge in the drive.  Can you mount this
> puppy after boot?

Yes.  The above is normal.

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