Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:21:55 -0600 From: Tom Russo <russo@bogodyn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Answering my own question Re: Iomega REV drive, FreeBSD 4.11 Message-ID: <20050724162155.GA11548@bogodyn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050722023347.GA5783@bogodyn.org> References: <20050722023347.GA5783@bogodyn.org>
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I'm answering my own question on the mailing list, just to get what I found into the archives in case anyone else has this question. On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:33:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo@bogodyn.org> flavor, containing: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.11. I last updated from STABLE in January: > > FreeBSD bogodyn.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sat Jan 22 13:10:32 MST 2005 russo@bogodyn.org:/users2/obj/usr/src/sys/BOGODYN i386 > > I just purchased an external SCSI Iomga REV 35MB removable medium drive. > [...] > When I attach the device and camcontrol rescan all, I get this in the > /var/log/messages: > > Jul 21 19:22:52 bogodyn /kernel: cd1: <Iomega RRD 84.B> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-4 > device [...] > That is, the drive is detected, but as a removable CDROM, This is not peculiar to BSD. Low-level SCSI utilities in the SCSI controller at boot time also fail to recognize this thing as a disk drive, and even on Windows it shows up as a CD-ROM. The only way to write data to it is to use a windows-only driver. And since it doesn't use an ISO-9660 file system, the only way to read data off of it is with a windows-only driver, too. So the thing is a paperweight unless one is using Windows. One can use the windows explorer to copy files into it, and one could use it to back up files if they're on a BSD machine shared by Samba. Useless for system recovery, but perhaps barely functional as a data backup. Live and learn. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 "The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort." -- Norton Juster
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