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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!jmurray From: jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Accessing Iomega ZIP FAT Data? Date: 1 Oct 1996 13:29:22 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech Lines: 31 Message-ID: <52r6bi$hcn@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <5286up$31s@pacific.discover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jmurray.campus.vt.edu In article <5286up$31s@pacific.discover.net>, Kolin E. Hand <kehand@pacific.discover.net> wrote: > >Greetings All, > >The FAQ only mentioned that -Current supported ZIP drives "cleanly". Thiss reffers to some werid messages you may get at startup, which as far I know can be ignored. >Does FreeBSD allow using ZIP drives that already contain data written >in FAT format? >I am interested in knowing if I can mount a ZIP disk using something >like: > > mount -t msdos /dev/sd3a /mnt Yes, the command I use is: mount -t msdos /dev/sdxs4 /mnt where x is your scsi drive number 1 in my case apperntly 3 in your case. -- -John Murray jmurray@vt.edu New Music by They Might Be Giants! http://jmurray.campus.vt.edu/tmbg/ The Unnoffical Pritcahrd Home Page http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~murray/pritchard