Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:33:10 -0500 From: John J Rieser <jjr@grauel.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "Re: USB Zip drive" Message-ID: <200005101633.LAA22457@sparcmill.grauel.com>
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Talk about timing! I was just mucking around with a 100MB USB Zip myself and asking similar questions... > Dan Nelson writes: > > You have a couple choices for a) > > 1. wire down your devices in your kernel config so each physical device > (bus 1, id 1, lun 0) always appears as the same logical device (da0, > etc). see LINT for examples. I've checked the LINT file and it explained this as though I have a SCSI controller installed. What if the USB zip drive is used in a machine that doesn't have a SCSI controller? Same LINT code apply? I'd don't want to plug/unplug everytime the machine boots/reboots..Is this possible? > 2. shuffle the SCSI IDs so your ZIP has a higher ID ??? I'm not sure, but I don't believe my USB zip has a SCSI ID switch/shunt/jumper/etc...Sorry if this sounds silly, but what exactly do you mean here? What kernel config args are you suggesting? > 3. edit /etc/fstab and change the mountpoints to reflect the fact that > your drives have moved. > > 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 > zapping hardware. I've done it successfully a number of times, but > don't recommend others do it :) Alternatively, you can hook the ZIP > drive up but just leave it off until the system is booted. Then turn > it on and run "camcontrol rescan". I thought USB devices were "hot-swapable"? Apologies to all for the newbie questions! John J. Rieser jjr@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x327 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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