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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:50:57 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        eric <eric@pancreas.erols.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Incorrect probing of Iomega SCSI ZIP drive 
Message-ID:  <199710100320.MAA00532@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 21:39:14 -0400." <19971009213914.28449@pancreas.erols.com> 

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> 
> My ZIP drive is getting probed wrong. It's on an Adaptec 2940. 
> The probe gets the number of sectors right, but the sector size
> is umm.. a bit strange: 
> 
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: sd1 at scbus0 target 6 lun 0
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: sd1: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 N*32> type 0 removable SCSI 2
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: sd1: Direct-Access
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: sd1: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: sd1:  Not ready to ready transition, medium may hav
> e changed
> Oct  3 21:28:13 epv /kernel: 11565MB (196608 59892 byte sectors)
> 
> 
> While a 10 Gb zip drive *would* be nice, I'm afraid this isn't right. :) 
> Any ideas? 

I've been seeing this on a parallel-port Zip, and was putting it down 
to problems with initial comms with the Zip.  If you remove the disk 
and reinsert it, does it get the size right?

mike





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