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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:51:40 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de (Fritz Heinrichmeyer)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA driver, ZIP-Disk and mtools now OK
Message-ID:  <199912171351.OAA95853@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <ufg0x1lm07.fsf@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de> from Fritz Heinrichmeyer at "Dec 17, 1999 02:44:56 pm"

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It seems Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> today i tried again a windows formatted ZIP disk with mtools. First
> with a line in /usr/local/etc/mtools.conf
> 
> drive z: file="/dev/afd0s4" <--- this does not work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> i had a message like 
>  
>  init Z: sector size too big
>  Cannot initialize 'Z:'
> 
> this message i have never seen before, so i gave poking around with
> mtools.conf another try. Looking at solaris examples, i edited
> 
> drive z: file="/dev/afd0s4" partition=4 # this works!!!!
> 
> and now it works!

Hmm, so my gut feeling that the atapi-fd driver did what it should
was not that far off :)

Thanks for reporting, I was about to spend time on this problem in
the weekend, now I can tick that on off....

-Søren


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