Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 04:22:01 -0800 (PST) From: Jerry Blancher <flerll@kaschynna.com> To: Nicholas Lysaght <nickl@ami.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mail.ami.com.au@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD AND ZIP DRIVE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330041105.5390A-100000@kaschynna.com> In-Reply-To: <351F63C9.552C@ami.com.au>
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_______________________________________________________________________ Kaschynna Communications mailto:flerll@kaschynna.com Internet Presence Provider mailto:flerll@drachenforge.com Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 208.765.9312 208.769.7337 Interactive MU* Hosting http://kaschynna.com/mudhost/ Drachen Forge MUD-telnet drachenforge.com 8000-http://drachenforge.com/ On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Hi There > > I have an Iomega ZIP-100 drive, which I would like to run under FreeBSD. > From the docs I'v read, it looks a hard slog. > > But a friend who runs Red Hat Linux mailed me to look for an > "automounter deamon". > > Is there such a thing with FreeBSD > > Thanks > > NICK > I have been running my 1gig Jaz drive on my Freebsd version 2.2.5 with little problems. The kernel had no problems detecting the SCSI card. The problems that I found is when the drive goes into sleep mode, and the kernel tries to detect it while it's in sleep mode, it will not detect the drive correctly. I suppose that you can change the SCSI wait in the kernel to wait longer for the jaz to come up to full running operation, but I found that 2.2.5 takes forever to come up as it is, do I choose not to do that. I got jazcontrol for FreeBSD to bring up the jaz drive before I'd do a reboot and it would detect it fine. But that is only required if you have the jaz drive auto-matically mounted on start-up. Otherwise, you can just use jazcontrol to bring up the jaz drive before you manually mount it. The latter is what I used for the most time till recently when my HD was givin me problems and so I took some load off it by running some of my aplications off the jaz drive, in which I had to make the jaz mount automatically at startup. (Side note: access time to the Jaz drive is ALOT better then it is to my 4gig Quantum Bigfoot[cheap, stock installed piece of Crud]). If you need the Jazcontrol file, let me know and I'll send you a copy as I have read reciently that it's not easy to find anymore. Jerry Blancher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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