From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 26 5:42:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (indyio.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46EC14F9F for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 05:42:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Received: from mars.rz.uni-sb.de (ns0.rz.uni-sb.de [134.96.7.5]) by indyio.rz.uni-sb.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12634130; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:41:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (maxtnt-234.telip.uni-sb.de [134.96.71.105]) by mars.rz.uni-sb.de (8.8.8/8.8.4/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA20605; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:41:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01190; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:47:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <199911261247.NAA01190@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:47:31 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: observations with the ata-driver (hd and zip drive) To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911260926.KAA55066@freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Nov, Soren Schmidt wrote: >> trying to mount the zip-drive gives: >> msdos: /dev/afd0s4: Invalid argument > > This has appeared before IIRC, I've no idea why this doesn't work, > but I can rig up my ZIP drive, but I dont have DOS nor WINDOWS, > do it fail also if the disk is formatted under FreeBSD ?? I didn´t tried to reproduce this recently, but you could try to format the ZIP-disc with mtools: mformat -t 96 -h 64 -s 32 -H 32 z: Fritz: could you post the output of "minfo z:" (ata-controller)? Here´s the one with wd (perhaps a diff between them gives someone a hint): ---snip--- (101) netchild@ttyp2 > minfo z: device information: =================== filename="/dev/rwfd0s4" sectors per track: 32 heads: 64 cylinders: 96 mformat command line: mformat -t 96 -h 64 -s 32 -H 32 z: bootsector information ====================== banner:"(?6;1IHC" sector size: 512 bytes cluster size: 4 sectors reserved (boot) sectors: 1 fats: 2 max available root directory slots: 512 small size: 0 sectors media descriptor byte: 0xf8 sectors per fat: 192 sectors per track: 32 heads: 64 hidden sectors: 32 big size: 196576 sectors physical drive id: 0x80 reserved=0x0 dos4=0x29 serial number: 39BC1102 disk label="ZIP-100 " disk type="FAT16 " ---snip--- And here the boot-message: ---snip--- wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, iordis wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) wfd0: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit set ---snip--- Søren, I assume the ata-controller knows about the last line, right? Bye, Alexander. -- I'll be damned if I can't win when I'm keeping score. http://netchild.home.pages.de Alexander+Home @ Leidinger.net Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message