From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 18 21:34:59 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA01378 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.interpath.com (babbleon@mercury.interpath.com [199.72.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA01371 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from babbleon@localhost) by mercury.interpath.com (8.6.12/v1.0) id AAA20168 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:34:55 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" Message-Id: <199612190534.AAA20168@mercury.interpath.com> Subject: Zip II: the disktab entry To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hardware) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:34:55 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, cool. Thanks to a couple of fine folks on this list, I now have my zip drive working w/r/t msdos mounting and raw device usage. Now, I'd like to create "real" filesystems on Zip drives, but I don't have a disktab entry for it. PS: It's slow as a dog, or so it seems to me, and, worse yet, it seems to make my system really sluggish. Has anybody spent time tuning it? I'm on a 486Dx4-100 with a fast parallel port, so I'd expect my system to pretty much be able to keep up if the Zip drive can. PPS: I'm unclear on the distinction between /dev/rsd0 and /dev/rsd0c (or /dev/rfd0 vs. /dev/rfd0c for that matter). I use the former as a rule but much of the doc favors the latter. Can anybody clue me in? PPPS: Anybody noticed stray irq 7's with the zip driver? I keep getting console messages about this from the kernel. PPPPS: For any of these, if you point me to TFM, I'll be happy to RTFM. Thanks. -- Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On. "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon