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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!news From: "Steven W. Smith" <steve> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms? Date: 7 Jan 1996 22:48:18 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4cpiji$12s2@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> <4cfldq$lic@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.104.224.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4c) X-URL: news:4cfldq$lic@crl.crl.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:37027 comp.sys.sun.hardware:31334 comp.unix.solaris:56488 comp.sys.sun.admin:60131 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1947 Here is one thing that you can do. Hook up the disk as SCSI ID 5 using a DB25->SCSI cable, terminate it, pop in a disk and format the thing as: format> current Current Disk = c0t5d0 <zip 100 cyl 510 alt 2 hd 2 sec 192> /sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@5,0 Then newfs the beast, mount it and away you go with about 90 meg of free space. Solaris 2.3 and on needs no other configuration. If you are running 4.1.x see June 1995 Sun Expert for an article on how to use one. I haven't gotten it working with vold yet, but the eject command (eject /dev/dsk/c0t5d0) works fine. If anyone can figure out vold, please pass it along. These things are great for storing seldom used, but large goodies. I bet you can even make a bootable one to get you up in a pinch. Of course this says nothing about DOS compatability, but they are still great little devices. Steve Smith steve@gcg.com