From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 11 05:39:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA16722 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from email.iomega.com (email.iomega.com [147.178.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA16715 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandon@iomega.com) Received: from ROYNTVRS01.iomega.com by email.iomega.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 11 Feb 1999 13:39:05 UT Received: from 147.178.3.10 by royntvrs02.iomega.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:39:09 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time) Received: by IOMEGA.COM with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:28 -0700 Received: from ogg.iomega.com ([147.178.80.151]) by iomega.com (GroupWise SMTP/MIME daemon 4.1 v3) ; Thu, 11 Feb 99 06:38:22 MST Received: (from brandon@localhost) by ogg.iomega.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA00511; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brandon) Message-ID: <19990211063845.A484@iomega.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:38:45 -0700 From: Brandon Gillespie To: Bob Willcox , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help disklabeling zip drives References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-md5; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Bob Willcox on Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 06:01:58AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 06:01:58AM -0700, Bob Willcox wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > 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). >=20 > Here's what fdisk tells me about the disk: >=20 [snip] >=20 > 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=3Dremovable: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 zip drives this way)... just switch the device 'wfd0' with the proper device for your system: dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/rwfd0 count=3D1024 Then the disklabel should run Ok: disklabel -r -w wfd0 auto -Brandon --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Oheh5N+hYX179JThz+dBHKW2s9Mqm3g1 iQA/AwUBNsLdZJqTh4ipUsGOEQIZ5QCeKTxM3s/Js3ZnUugkoHM/zBxtx1MAn1el RbfdzjfOg9QK12olQMuqM4Ft =LpfO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message