Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:29:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Zip Help...please Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807311528260.14321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980731141204.wwoods@cybcon.com>
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: > OK, I am tryiing to format a ZIP drive on sd6: > > this is what I am doing and the error I am getting.... > > bash-2.01# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd6 count=100 > 100+0 records in > 100+0 records out > 51200 bytes transferred in 2.038929 secs (25111 bytes/sec) > bash-2.01# disklabel -rw sd6 zip100 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device <<-- What's this? It means that sd6 didn't want your disklabel. Make sure it's found during the boot probes, and boot with a disc in the drive so the the drive size information is found. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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