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From: cjb@efn.org (Chris Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Accessing Iomega ZIP FAT Data?
Date: 3 Oct 1996 12:17:49 -0700
Organization: Oregon Public Networking
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In <52r6bi$hcn@solaris.cc.vt.edu> jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray) writes:

>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.

What about paralell ZIP drives?  What is the device for them?
Thanks!

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