Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:32:54 -0500 From: Larry Anderson <laander@megsinet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Horrible Zip Drives... Message-ID: <000349395859f084_mailit@megspo.megsinet.net>
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I know this has been beat to death but I have tried everything I can find that "works" for someone. Here is my problem. I use the following commands to format an ATAPI zip drive for UFS: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwfd0 count=2 (succeeds OK) disklabel /dev/rwfd0 | disklabel -B -R -r wfd0 /dev/stdin (succeeds OK) newfs /dev/rwfd0c and it fails with: write error: 196607 newfs: wtfs: Input/Output error I have reformatted the zip disk several times in DOS and tried different ways in FreeBSD to attempt to get a UFS filesystem on it. The zip disk works fine in DOS, fine mounted as DOS in FreeBSD, but i can't get it to format UFS. Can anyone tell me what might be the problem, or do I just suffer with FAT filesystems. Thanks, Larry Anderson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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