Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:09:05 +1000 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zip drive and MAKEDEV? --help Message-ID: <00070215100300.00396@dannyh.freebsd.org> References: <395EC9BA.533E3A20@3-cities.com>
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backup# mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip mount_msdos: /dev/da0s4: Device not configured On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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 > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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