From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 11:29:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wonka.esatclear.ie (wonka.esatclear.ie [194.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047B237B416 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from wintermute (c-airlock082.esatclear.ie [194.145.132.82]) by wonka.esatclear.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19908 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:29:28 GMT Received: by wintermute (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4131536DB2D; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:29:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:29:39 +0000 From: Tiarnan O Corrain To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZIPdrive won't mount Message-ID: <20020105192939.A4438@wintermute> Mail-Followup-To: Tiarnan O Corrain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message