From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jun 12 20:59: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Millions.Ca (h-207-228-120-32.gen.cadvision.com [207.228.120.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA5C37BC7A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:58:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.CA) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA46238; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:58:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.CA) Received: from Oak.Millions.Ca(192.168.64.1) via SMTP by mail-gw-0.millions.ca, id smtpdB46236; Mon Jun 12 21:58:35 2000 Received: from Millions.CA (Maple.Millions.Ca [192.168.64.2]) by oak.millions.ca (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05910; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:58:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3945B168.DD3B2502@Millions.CA> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:58:32 -0600 From: Stacy Millions Organization: Millions Consulting Limited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SONY Z505S References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > > USB Floppy drive > > > > I got this running two months ago but now everytime I do a > > "camcontrol rescan 0" the machine freezes then reboots itself > > automatically. I'll have to try it outside X to see if I get a message. > > That would be appreciated. Should be easy enough to fix. A Y-E Data > floppy works fine here (saves me carrying around a much heavier laptop > bay floppy drive :-) I'm running FreeBSD 4.0-Current on a Sony Z505S. The last time I cvsuped and recompiled was May 22. I have no problems with my floppy. relevant dmesg output: usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered umass0: Y-E DATA FlashBuster-U, rev 1.00/1.14, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim32 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 20KB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present On a completely different note: any one looking to add some memory to their notebook, check out www.crucial.com I ordered a 128MB SODIMM for my Z505S (for a total of 192MB) for $113.39 US (plus $15 US for Fedex to Canada). I ordered it Friday morning, the emailed me a shipping confirmation by Friday evening and Fedex was at my door Monday morning. Sorry to sound like a commercial, but I am a very satisfied customer. -stacy -- Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character. - Calvin Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca Millions Consulting Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message