From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 15 10:23:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB4537B72D; Mon, 15 May 2000 10:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.19.5] helo=bluebottle.qubesoft.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12rO8r-000DtW-0A; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:54:54 +0000 Received: from henny.webweaving.org (henny.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.5]) by bluebottle.qubesoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA38635; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:54:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA82486; Mon, 15 May 2000 11:52:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:52:45 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Dan Nelson Cc: Ian Cartwright , "FreeBSD Hardware (E-mail)" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: USB Zip drive In-Reply-To: <20000510104713.A4587@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 2. shuffle the SCSI IDs so your ZIP has a higher ID USB and any other SCSI controllers have different SCSI busses therefore the devices on them have independent device numberings. > 3. edit /etc/fstab and change the mountpoints to reflect the fact that > your drives have moved. That won't help as USB are sometimes present and sometimes not. Apart from wiring down your devices, there is nothing we can do about it at present. > for b), make sure your scsi bus is idle, plug ZIP thing in and run > "camcontrol rescan". This is dangerous, since you have a chance of You can plug and unplug a running USB Zip drive at any time. That is what USB is about. What that does to your file system and machine is a different issue thought :-) But there is certainly no mechanical or electrical problem with doing that. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message