From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 23:30:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.megsinet.net (mailcluster-a.megsinet.net [216.214.150.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BAA14C31 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from laander@megsinet.net) Received: from megspo.megsinet.net (tnt4-63.focal-chi.megsinet.net) by mail.megsinet.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1998.11.13.11.10) with SMTP id <0FAO003L6KV8EF@mail.megsinet.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:33:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:32:54 -0500 From: Larry Anderson Subject: Horrible Zip Drives... To: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Larry Anderson Message-id: <000349395859f084_mailit@megspo.megsinet.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 2.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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