From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 16 11:34:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12679 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12674 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0zUEhM-00072Y-00; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:34:00 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA00930; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:33:52 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Iomega JAZ 1G Tape... To: Greg Lynn cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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