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From: tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tim Singletary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drive and 2.0.5 ???
Date: 15 Dec 1995 15:34:17 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In-reply-to: julian@mailhub.tfs.com's message of 3 Dec 1995 23:45:29 GMT
I asked if SCSI Zip drives work under FreeBSD 2.0.5 and Julian
Elischer said "I believe so.. you need to get used to ignoring
warning messages, until you've got it fully configured.. once it's
been disklabelled it works just fine.."
Well, I finally got it to work. But it was painful! Until it finally
(and magically, it seemed) started working, I got all sorts of bizarre
messages!
I think a lot of my problems had to do with confusion over disk geometry.
The /etc/disktab entry that finally worked was
zip:\
:ty=removable:nc#48:sc#4096:\
:dt=SCSI:\
:pc#196608:oc#0:bc#8192:fc#1024:
I haven't yet tried making a bootable disk ... perhaps next week!
tim
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