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From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI ZIP drive question
Date: 3 Jan 1997 03:21:57 GMT
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Sebestyen Zoltan (szoli@ludens.elte.hu) wrote:
: I'd just like to know if there's a way to mount a SCSI ZIP drive on FreeBSD.
Yes, you mount it as you do any other SCSI device. It appears to
FreeBSD as a hard drive. It should map to the appropriate device node
depending on your SCSI bus configuration. You also probably should put
in a /etc/format.dat entry for Zip media. The table entry was posted
here by Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>. Here it is:
-- Cut here --
I've got 2 ZIP drives (SCSI) and have used them on 486, Pentium, and DEC
Alpha systems without any problems, both as backup devices AND system
boot devices. I even managed to squeeze a mininal DEC Unix (aka OSF/1)
system onto a cartridge (which is 96MB by the way - 100,000,000
bytes!). FreeBSD fits just fine in the available space and is not TOO
unresponsive!
The only 'problem' I've seen is FreeBSD spitting a "SCSI Attention/Media
may have changed" message on the console when I change a cartridge.
Apparently, the SCSI disk driver doesn't think that this is kosher.
Of course with dump/tar, you treat the ZIP like a great big floppy drive
if you want prompts for media changes.
My disktab entry looks like-
zip100|iomega100|iomega ZIP 100 96Mb:\
:dt=SCSI:ty=???:se#512:nt#64:ns#32:nc#96:\
:pa#16384:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD:\
:pb#16384:ob#16384:tb=swap:\
:pc#196608:oc#0:\
:ph#163840:oh#32768:bh#4096:fh#512:th=4.2BSD:
Don't know what should go in the 'type' field!?
-- cut here --
I believe what should go in the type field is the designater for
removable media device.
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