From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 06:47:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12595 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:47:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kaschynna.com (kaschynna.com [206.63.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12590 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 06:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flerll@kaschynna.com) Received: from localhost (flerll@localhost) by kaschynna.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA05416; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 04:22:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 04:22:01 -0800 (PST) From: Jerry Blancher To: Nicholas Lysaght cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mail.ami.com.au@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD AND ZIP DRIVE In-Reply-To: <351F63C9.552C@ami.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG _______________________________________________________________________ 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