Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:29:39 +0000 From: Tiarnan O Corrain <ocorrain@esatclear.ie> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZIPdrive won't mount Message-ID: <20020105192939.A4438@wintermute>
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Hello--
I've recently installed FreeBSD on a computer that used to run Debian
Linux, and am having a few teething problems.
The first concerns a zipdisk on which I have backed up all of my old
mail. The drive is a primeval parallel port 100M Zip, which
nevertheless is dear to my heart and has worked well for me. I
recompiled the kernel, and the vpo device is showing up in my boot
messages:
# dmesg|grep vpo
vpo0: <Iomega VPI0 Parallel to SCSI interface> on ppbus0
vpo0: EPP mode
da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
Going with the article on Zip disks that came with my 4.4-RELEASE
documentation, I tried to mount the disk. Fdisk gives the following
output:
# fdisk /dev/da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=96 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 32, size 196576 (95 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 95/ head 63/ sector 32
which seems OK, so I try:
# mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt
and get:
mount_msdos: /dev/da0s4: Invalid argument
though I can hear the drive chugging away.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
Tiarnan
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