From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 14:05:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA14699 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:05:22 -0700 Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA14680 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 14:05:14 -0700 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA10299; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:03:49 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id RAA12641; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:03:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:03:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Julian Elischer cc: Fred Cawthorne , peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZIP drives In-Reply-To: <199507171728.KAA11434@ref.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: Do any of you guys have a disktab entry for a zip disk drive, assuming the entire 100 megs is used? > It should work.. > as soon as it can load the disklabel then it trusts that for the > geometry etc. > > > > > > The Iomega ZIP drive looks just big enough to let me install FreeBSD on one, > > > using the live file system CD, to let me do test installs and stuff pretty > > > cheapl ($20 per 100M cartridge). Has anyone any input into this? > > > > > I have used it with a NCR scsi controller and an UltraStor 14f. There > > are some warnings from the NCR controller, but I don't remember seeing > > them with the Ultrastor. > > (When it is probed or a disk is changed, I get: > > sd2(ncr0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB > > sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry > > ) > > > Especially: has anyone used one under FreeBSD, or booted from one? > > > > > I have used it with FreeBSD to store stuff and install from, and I have > > installed FreeBSD and booted from it. You may have to boot from the > > floppy and give it the right root device though. (Depending on what > > your scsi controller does about booting) It makes a nice "emergency" > > system to boot BSD and reformat your hard drive, etc... > > > > Fred. > > > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 220-2114 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------