From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 11: 4:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1B03E02 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA29935; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:05:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38A068F0.795FB642@math.udel.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 14:05:20 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Iomega External Zip Drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can put a ufs or a msdos filesystem on it. I personally leave my Zips formatted for msdos so I can use them on both my installed OSes (Windows and FreeBSD). You would mount the Zip disk with this command: mount -t msdos /dev/wfd0c /mnt/zip where /mnt/zip is the mount point that you want. Use the cdrom line in the /etc/fstab file as a template for adding a line for your ZIP. I usually have two lines for my Zip. One for when it's formatted ufs (/mnt/zipu) and one for when it's formatted msdos (/mnt/zipm). Alex wrote: > I have an Iomega External Zip 100 and I think I've tried just about > everything I can think of to make this thing work in FreeBSD? I've read > the LINT and GENERIC KERNEL files and I've checked threw the handbook. Can > you guys please explain how to make an External Zip Drive work? Does it > have to do with the format of the zip disk? > > Thanks, > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message