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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

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