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Subject: Re: trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port
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Alex Walker asked on Saturday January 17, 2004:

>
> Here's on of those things that should be simple but is giving me a
> surprising number of headachs...
>
> I'm trying to mount a parallel zip drive on FreeBSD 4.8. I did
re-configure
> my kernel to include the vpo driver and I get the following message on
> "dmesg":
>
> vpo0: <Iomega VPI0 Parallel to SCSI interface> on
> ppbus0
> vpo0: EPP mode
> vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (5)
> vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (5)
>
> The errors are a little worrying, but it does seem to be seeing the drive.
> Then, when trying to mount it, I get this error:
>
> mount_msdos: /dev/da0s4: Device not configured
>
> I'm sure there's something very small and simple that I'm doing wrong, and
> I'd be grateful if someone would kindly point it out.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Alex
>

Just a stab in the dark, because I haven't used this device - can you mount
da0s4a or da0s4c ?