Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 21:59:16 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP disks and kernel errors Message-ID: <35A02F74.308B1C84@kew.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705005303.11562L-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > > I'm trying to initialize a new pile of zip disks; the ZIP drive is the only > > SCSI device on a 1542 under FreeBSD 2.2.6: > > > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: (aha0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 N*32" type 0 > > removable SCSI 2 > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): Direct-Access > > Jul 4 12:31:07 pandora /kernel: sd0(aha0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 > > Invalid field in CDB > > Jul 4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using > > ficticious geometry > > Jul 4 12:31:08 pandora /kernel: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors) > > > > I have run fdisk on the disk with the following results: > > > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > 1: <UNUSED> > > 2: <UNUSED> > > 3: <UNUSED> > > 4: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > start 32, size 196576 (95 Meg), flag 0 > > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > > end: cyl 95/ sector 32/ head 63 > > Any reason you need an fdisk table? The usual reasons for not creating a dangerously dedicated disk, in particular insuring that MS operating systems understand that the disk has a valid format even if they can't read it. In addition, the quoted post by Justin Gibbs specifically took this method. (See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=321222+323525+/usr/local/www/db/text/1995/freebsd-questions/19950820.freebsd-questions). > Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat for one method > that works. My general requirement is the ability to label this disk from the command line; the suggested tutorial doesn't seem to allow this, given the errors I am seeing (whcih you deleted in your response). -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 "A little voice inside my head said don't look back, You can never look back . . ." - Don Henley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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