From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 2:20:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from router.darlow.co.uk (pc2-bigg2-0-cust101.lut.cable.ntl.com [213.107.35.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2CC37B408 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ideal.darlow.co.uk (IDENT:1000@ideal.darlow.co.uk [192.168.0.3]) by router.darlow.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f989KJD90848 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:20:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from neil@darlow.co.uk) From: Neil Darlow Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:20:19 GMT Message-ID: <20011008.9201900@ideal.darlow.co.uk> Subject: How primitive is support for Zip-100 USB drive? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2;Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Just updated to RELENG_4_4 and seen that support for the Iomega Zip-100 USB drive is described as primitive. How primitive is this support? I have been able to format a disk with UFS but unable to return these disks to MSDOS format. All attempts to newfs_msdos these disks are met with a read-only filesystem error. Is this a known limitation of the support i.e. is it a one-way trip to UFS land? Regards, Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- 1024D/531F9048 1999-09-11 Neil Darlow GPG fingerprint =3D 359D B8FF 6273 6C32 BEAA 43F9 E579 E24A 531F 9048 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message