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Date:      Sat, 16 May 1998 20:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Aaron Yeung <aaronx@fearme.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems mounting iomega scsi zip drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980516203505.17001N-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980516202250.aaronx@fearme.com>

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On Sat, 16 May 1998, Aaron Yeung wrote:

> re:
> 
> the error message was further down in the message
> and, here we go, with /dev/rsd0 instead of sd0

sorry it was off my screen and I assumed for some reason there wasn't any
more..

no I meant to do the newfs and disklabel to the raw device.
you need to use the block device for a mount..


> 
> ERROR MESSAGE:
> -------------------
> <snip>
> 
> praxis# mount -t msdos /dev/rsd0 /zip100
> msdos: /dev/rsd0: Block device required
> praxis# 
well yes, but the error you mentionned before was from a different
command..

disklabel, was it not?  mount must be done to sd0.. 

> 
> >> ----------------------------------
> >> E-Mail: aaronx@fearme.com
u> > On Sat, 16 May 1998, Aaron Yeung wrote:
> > 
> >> hello,
> >> 
> >> 
> >>         ok the scsi iomega zip drive works now, i have recompiled my kernel
> >>         with
> >> scbus0 and sd0 uncommented, and when i try to mount it or someone told me to
> >> do
> >> disklabel -r /dev/sd0, the zip drive makes a noise, and gives an error.
> >> 
> >> - i have an internal scsi iomega zip drive
> >> - adaptec 1502i scsi adapter (i used aic0)
> >> 
> >> what should i do?
> >> 
> >> thanks
> >> 
> >> - aaron
> >> 
> >> Here's a dmesg output of the aic0
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >> aic0 at 0x140-0x15f irq 11 on isa
> >> aic0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> >> (aic0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 E.08" type 0 removable SCSI 2
> >> sd0(aic0:5:0): Direct-Access 
> >> sd0(aic0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> >> sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry
> >> 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors)
> >> --------------------------------
> >> 
> >> Error messages:
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >> praxis# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0 /zip
> >> msdos: /dev/sd0: Invalid argument

try /dev/sd0s1
(if it already has a MSDOS pertition on it)

> >> praxis# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1c /zip
> >> msdos: /dev/sd0s1c: Invalid argument

sd0s1c is only valid with a BSD disklabel on the disk.

> >> praxis# disklabel -r /dev/sd0   

there is no disklabel there, and to write a new one you need the 
-w option.
(and use a raw device)

> >> Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
yep

> >> praxis#
> >> 


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