Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:45 -0700 From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@iomega.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help disklabeling zip drives Message-ID: <19990211063845.A484@iomega.com> In-Reply-To: <s6c279d5.047@IOMEGA.COM>; from Bob Willcox on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 06:01:58AM -0700 References: <s6c279d5.047@IOMEGA.COM>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 06:01:58AM -0700, Bob Willcox wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Could some kind soul(s) out there please tell me how they go about
> disklabeling their zip drives? I changed the partition type on my zip
> cartridge from DOS (6) to FreeBSD (165) but can't figure out how to get
> disklabel to put a label on it. This is on a scsi zip drive running
> 3.0-stable (of 2/9).
>
> Here's what fdisk tells me about the disk:
>
[snip]
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks,
I'm assuming you have a disktab entry for a Zip100 (I think it was
added a little after 3.0-R), but incase you dont (and for posterity),
add the following to /etc/disktab:
zip100|zip 100:\
:ty=removable:se#512:nc#96:nt#64:ns#32:\
:pa#196608:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\
:pb#196608:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\
:pc#196608:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512:
Then what I do whenever I'm having problems is just nuke any label
whatsoever on the drive (I've been able to recover a lot of hozed <by
windows> zip drives this way)... just switch the device 'wfd0' with
the proper device for your system:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwfd0 count=1024
Then the disklabel should run Ok:
disklabel -r -w wfd0 auto
-Brandon
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