Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:33:52 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Greg Lynn <dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Iomega JAZ 1G Tape... Message-ID: <ML-3.3.908562832.5627.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981016125231.6191A-100000@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu>
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> Does anyone out there know what it takes to enable a Jaz > tape drive on 2.2.7? Is it simply a matter of specifying the > type in mount and/or should the kernel have a line of info. It's not a tape, it's a disk. It mounts like any other disk. > Kernel output goes like this: > > (ahc0:5:0): "iomega jaz 1GB J.83" type 0 removable SCSI 2 > sd2(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access > sd2(ahc0:5:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present > sd2: could not get size > sd2(ahc0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB > sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using fictitious geometry > > But that's WITHOUT a cartridge in the drive. Can you mount this > puppy after boot? Yep. If you have a cartridge in at boot time, it will be able to get the geometry info from it; which is convienient if you haven't partitioned, labeled, and newfsed it yet. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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