From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 15:44: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D18154E8 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00312; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Larry Anderson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horrible Zip Drives... In-Reply-To: <000349395859f084_mailit@megspo.megsinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Larry Anderson wrote: > 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. Did you try a new disk? It appears that one is defective. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message