From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 19 03:33:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA26627 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 03:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from konig.elte.hu (konig.elte.hu [157.181.6.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA26468 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 03:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sebesty@localhost) by konig.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/7s) with SMTP id LAA15047; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:10:14 +0200 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:10:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zoltan Sebestyen X-Sender: sebesty@konig To: Parrish Myers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Parrish Myers wrote: > I like to know I you can solve a problem I am having. I have installed > FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE. I can't seem to mount my Zip drive. I have an > AHA-2940 UW scsi adapter and a scsi zip drive set to id: 5. > > I think I am doing this right... > > mount /dev/sd0s1 /zip > > The responce is a page full of error messages: > > Aug 18 16:30:33 jester /kernel: sd0(ahc0:5:0): ILLEGSAL REQUEST asc:24,0 > Invalid field in CDB > > Aug 18 16:30:33 jester /kernel: sd0 could not mode sence (4). Using > ficticious geometry > > /dev/sd0s1 on /zip: Incorrect super block. What kind of filesystem have you got on the ZIP disk? If have FAT, then you have to type mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip (Yes, it's recognized as the FOURTH partition). For more information, visit this link: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up. szoli@caesar.elte.hu But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?