From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 08:37:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA12159 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (root@phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA12137 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:37:01 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18883; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12489; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:37:33 -0700 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:37:33 -0700 Message-Id: <9606221537.AA12489@asimov.volant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br Subject: Re: UFS and JAZ drive Reply-To: patl@Phoenix.volant.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: LMBjO3asGgBk02j5WlS9Hw== Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk |> I've just bought a JAZ drive (from iomega). I can mount a DOS |> file system with mount -t msdos /dev/sd2s4 /dos. However, commands |> like disklabel and fdisk doesn't seem to work (disklabel says: |> operation not suportted by device...) |> |> Is there a way to have a Unix file system on these disks? If yes, |> what commands shall I use. I'm running 2.1.0-RELEASE. Hmmm. I bought two of them a couple of weeks ago, and installed one as SCSI target zero to allow me to easily choose which OS to run without worrying about compatible boot blocks or whether one OS might trash partitions belonging to another. I had no problem installing FreeBSD 2.1R on a Jaz drive. I didn't do anything special to prepare the disk, just the normal install sequence. (Note that I was installing onto a blank disk, not the Tools cartridge that comes with the drive.) One thing to note is that the Tools cartridge is formatted in al way that makes it compatible with both Mac and MS-DOS/WINDOWS. They claim that you must install the tools or reformat the drive to make the whole thing usable. There is also some indication that their drives implement some method of putting a write-protect password on the cartridge. Possibly the tools disk is password protected until install/reformat. In any case, if you have been trying to install onto the Tools cartridge, you might want to try a blank one instead. -Pat My opinions are my own. For a small royalty, they can be yours as well... Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG http://Phoenix.Volant.ORG/