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Subject: Re: Zip drive and MAKEDEV? --help
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Danny wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> - I have reocmpiled the kernel to support the zip dirve
> - I can't seem to figure out what I have to have to do in MAKEDEV to get the
> parallel zip drive working
> - I can't figure out how to mount the /zip drive?
> 
> Question
> 
> 1) what do I add in makedev /dev whatever to get it to work
> 2) I want to mount the zip drive to /zip so I can cp
> /home/mybackups/mywork.tar.gz /zip
> 
> - Here is the out put of dmesg :-
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 23:40:35 GMT 1999

<snip>

> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
> da0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.03> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> changing root device to wd2s1a

The usual rule is to

mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip

but I have never use a printer-port zip but this works on my scsi zip.

Kent

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