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From: mrl@lady.cetech.com (Mostyn R. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega JAZ disktab entries anyone???
Date: 4 Nov 1996 02:44:31 GMT
Organization: CETech Inc.
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In article <55gv8j$cho@baygull.rtd.com>, John L. Sackett III wrote:
>Just bought one, and want to use it for FreeBSD.  I have a PCI NCR -825 SCSI
>controller card.  It recognizes the JAZ drive no problem, but the sysinstall
>utility will not write the boot block. Has anyone else tried this?  I sure could use a working disktab entry.    

Try the following ->

iomjaz|Iomega Jaz 1GB - FreeBSD: \
        :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:se#512:nt#64:ns#32:nc#1021:rm#5394:\
        :pa#2090976:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#1024:ta=4.2BSD: \
        :pc#2090976:oc#0: 

Mostyn Lewis