From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 23:38:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA19289 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:38:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA19283 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:38:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA12887; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:40:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199602130740.IAA12887@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: SCSI Iomega zip drive To: robert@fledge.watson.org (Robert Watson) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 08:40:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Robert Watson" at Feb 12, 96 06:07:55 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I'm borrowing a friends IOMega zip drive for a while so I can move > several file collections onto my FreeBSD 2.1.0 system. I installed the > SCSI card (an adaptec 6360 card) because my existing card has only high > density SCSI-2 external port, and the iomega requires a db-25 port. So > now I have two scsi adapters in the sytem. I've included a copy of my > dmesg and lsdev below. The problem is, I don't know what to do next. I > attempted to mount the drive, it didn't work. When I do a scsi probe on > it, I get a timeout [ sd0[aic0:5:0): timed out] despite the fact that it > kind of gets listed in the dmesg. Any advice from anyone who is using > one already, or any suggestiongs about how to debug the problem would be > much welcomed. > First off, get a DB25 to 50pin adapter for a few bucks - it helps a lot :-) I'm running an IOMEGA ZIP drive off a AH1542B w/o problems though there is some strange probe message which I was told is harmless. The time-out though is bad. Do you have proper cabling/termination? You know that the IOMEGA has a terminator enable/disable switch on the rear? [dmesg, lsdev deleted] --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de