Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron Yeung <aaronx@fearme.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi zip drive Message-ID: <XFMail.980520082628.aaronx@fearme.com> In-Reply-To: <19980520102845.A10417@ct.picker.com>
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can you please send the scripts :-) oh and btw, how do you eject the zip disk? like just umount it then press eject? On 20-May-98 Randall Hopper wrote: > Aaron Yeung: > | ok the scsi iomega zip drive works now, i have recompiled my > |kernel with scbus0 and sd0 uncommented, and when i try to mount it or > |someone told me to do disklabel -r /dev/sd0, the zip drive makes a noise, > |and gives an error. > > Just read the whole thread, and I'm a little surprised no-one has been able > to give you the right answer yet. > > If this is a stock ZIP disk that hasn't been reformatted, the DOS FAT (aka > "msdos") file system slice is going to be on Slice #4. So what you want is: > > mkdir /zip > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip > > You can run "fdisk sd0" to double-check where it is. > > Of course, if you want you can reformat the disk so that a DOS FAT file > system is attached to any of these slices (1-4), or you can put a FreeBSD > UFS file system on the disk instead and attach it to any of these slices > (1-4). The latter gives you long filenames, UNIX permissions, etc. > > If you want a script that'll cook UFS ZIP disks in FreeBSD, just let me > know. I too have a SCSI ZIP on sd0. > > You can also insert an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab so that normally all > you need to do is type "mount /zip" and it'll do the "mount -t msdos > /dev/sd0s4 /zip" for you. Let me know if you'd like me to mail it to you. > > Finally I have a few cheesy setuid perl scripts I can mail you too so you > can mount and unmount your ZIP disks without having to become root first. > Again, just let me know. > > Randall ---------------------------------- E-Mail: aaronx@fearme.com ICQ: 3401083 Date: 20-May-98 Time: 08:25:17 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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