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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:59:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        thekind@NETural.com (Adam W. Dace)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Buslogic 946C + Bernouli ZIP Drive == ?
Message-ID:  <199601180159.RAA28666@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117172924.6005A-100000@stormbringer.netural.com> from "Adam W. Dace" at Jan 17, 96 05:32:46 pm

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Ignore this error.
use disklabel on the disk and give it whatever geometry works
once there is a label, it will over-ride the ficticious geometry anyhow..

except for this error message it should just 'work'..
You might try deleting the printf :)



> 
> Hi all, sorry to bother you all with yet another stupid question, but I'm 
> still a bit uncertain of how freebsd does it's internal labeling, and a 
> friend from #freebsd told me to send in this error, perhaps that I need a 
> patch for my Buslogic 946C driver:  (this from /var/log/messages)
> 
> Jan 16 09:54:43 stormbringer /kernel: (bt0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 N*32" 
> type 0 removable SCSI 2
> Jan 16 09:54:43 stormbringer /kernel: sd1(bt0:5:0): Direct-Access
> Jan 16 09:54:44 stormbringer /kernel: sd1(bt0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST 
> asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> Jan 16 09:54:44 stormbringer /kernel: sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using 
> ficticious geometry
> Jan 16 09:54:44 stormbringer /kernel: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors)
> 
> I'd very much like to format the disk in the drive, one partition, and be
> able to access it via /mnt/zip (for instance).
> 
> Basically, all I need to know is:  what do I need to do to get this sucker
> going?  I re-fdisk'ed it, but now am at a loss for what to do.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Also, please cc: all 
> replies to thekind@netural.com.  I have procmail filtering freebsd into 
> mail/ folders and don't get much of a chance to look in there regularly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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