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Date:      Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:28:59 -0700
From:      Ben Schumacher <bs@cyalchemy.com>
To:        Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991101152618.0098f340@mail.cyalchemy.com>
In-Reply-To: <381E0E86.82E07868@ddsecurity.com.br>

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IDE Zip Drives (at least my IDE Zip drive) are supported using the IDE 
Floppy device.

Make sure you have these lines in your kernel configuration:

options ATAPI
options ATAPI_STATIC
device wfd0

Then you should be able to access your zip drive using /dev/wfd0

Hope this helps,

- Ben Schumacher

At 08:04 PM 11/1/99 -0200, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote:
>I am trying to set my IDE ZIP Drive (which is connected to Secondary
>Slave Dev).
>
>The problem, is that altough i commented out the wdc1 line in my kerel
>config file.
>Here it goes:
>
>controller      wdc1    at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15
>
>
>The problem is that my freebsd box cannot see my wdc1 device, here is
>what o get from my dmesg output:
>
>
>...
>wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
>wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE8.4A>
>wd0: 8063MB (16514064 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
>wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <  34X CD-ROM/VER 1.D1>, removable, accel, dma,
>iordy
>acd0: drive speed 687 - 3781KB/sec, 128KB cache
>acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-DA, packet track
>acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels
>acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
>acd0: Medium: CD-ROM 120mm photo disc loaded, unlocked
>wdc1 not found at 0x170
>...
>
>Can anyone here explian me *PLEASE* what is going on ?
>
>
>PS: From Linux/Win is works well. So where is my mistaken ?
>
>
>--
>Message of the day:
>
>     The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
>appreciates how difficult it was.
>
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