Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:33:43 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: FAQ Addition (ZIP help) Message-ID: <19970522003343.10239@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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Hi everyone. I tried to send this proposed addition to the FAQ to Peter de Silva, but i haven't gottena response.. When I looked into it his pds@freebsd.org is forwaded to peter@taronga.com. taronga.com doesn't exist as far as I can tell, so I'm worried that maybe he didn't get my mail. Anyways, take a look and make suggestions, corrections, rejections, whatever. It's just a simple FAQ on how to use your ZIP drive with FreeBSD! TIA, -Mark -----Forwarded message from Mark Mayo <mark@vinyl.quickweb.com>----- Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id WAA01120; Sat, 17 May 1997 22:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970517221738.55178@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 22:17:38 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vinyl.quickweb.com> To: pds@freebsd.org Cc: mark@quickweb.com Subject: FAQ Addition (ZIP help) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi. I've gotten enough requests personally for me to create a simple set of instructions on how to use a SCSI ZIP drive under FreeBSD. It's MIME attached. Sorry it's not in SGML.. just plain ASCII. I'll learn SGML some day! -Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ZIP-FAQ.txt" ZIP FreeBSD Info: ----------------- You can use your SCSI ZIP drive under FreeBSD in two scenarios: 1) Mount the standard "FAT" formatted disk 2) Create a Unix FFS Zip disk If you want to use a standard ZIP disk (which is pre-formatted with a DOS FAT filesystem) you can mount it up using the msdos filesystem option with the mount command. You can also share this disk with other operating systems like Win95 and WinNT, but FreeBSD can only write DOS 8.3 files - no long file names! 1. Mounting a MSDOS (FAT) zip disk: mount -t msdos /dev/sd2s4 /zip Note that we are assuming that the ZIP drive is the third device on the SCSI chain (hence sd2). Check 'dmesg' to see what "sd" your ZIP drive is... You will always specify "slice 4", however. If you don't care about using the same disk under both FreeBSD and Windows, "reformatting" it with a Unix FFS filesystem is certainly a better idea. You'll get long filename support, and a 2X improvement in performance. First of all you will need to destroy the FAT partitions/filesystem already on the disk, and then create a new Unix filesystem with the 'newfs' command: 2. Creating a new FFS filesystem on a zip disk: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2 count=2 disklabel -Brw sd2 auto disklabel -e sd2 (only if you want partitions other than c!!) newfs /dev/rsd2c Note again that we are assuming your ZIP is on "sd2". It may not be :-) If you just want to use the entire disk, you'll only need to execute the first 'disklabel' -> it will assume you want the whole 96MB of the ZIP. The 'newfs' option uses partition "c", meaning it will use the entire disk... To mount the newly created disk, simply: mount /dev/sd2c /zip --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH-- -----End of forwarded message----- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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