Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:58:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: nrepin@digiteyes.com.au (Nick Repin) Cc: robh@imdb.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jaz drive. How to ? Message-ID: <199701082158.PAA28445@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970108210814.0070153c@mail.ozemail.com.au> from Nick Repin at "Jan 9, 97 08:08:14 am"
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In a previous message, Nick Repin said: > At 12:07 PM 8/01/97 +0000, you wrote: > > > >Has anyone written a step by step "how to" guide on preparing > >a jaz drive + cartridge for use under FreeBSD ? > > > >... > > > >Can anyone point me at some information or help me out ? > > > > > After a bit of fiddling about I got one running with a FreeBSD file system > on the cartridge. The whole thing behaves sensibly as removable media - i.e. > cannot be ejected while the filesystem is mounted. Special Jaz features like > password protecting/unprotecting are not supported. > > I neglected to record the steps cause I was learning about the system and > not sure it was going to work at all but at least you know it is possible. > If nobody else has a simple answer I can the cartridge back to FAT file > system and go through the process again (hopefully). > > Regards, > -Nick This is how I create a new FS on my Syquest drive (I would imagine that the Jaz could do the same thing, with its own disklabel): new-syquest-disk: # This won't work if you're using /bin/csh: d=sd2 disklabel -B -R -r $d /home/proot/bin/syquest-disklabel # We only want one partition, so using slice 'c' should be fine: newfs /dev/r${d}c tunefs -o space -m 3 /dev/r${d}c syquest-disklabel: # /dev/rsd2: type: unknown disk: label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 2 sectors/cylinder: 64 cylinders: 4096 sectors/unit: 262144 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 262144 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4095) You can get your own disklabel from your current newfs'd Jaz drive. You'll probably need to frob a few things like rpm and interleave. Paul. -- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. --Grant R. Gainey
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