*BSD News Article 86786


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.138.243.15!csnews!smithgr
From: smithgr@cs.colorado.edu (Gregory P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: iomega Zip drive with BSDi 2.1 (help)
Date: 24 Jan 1997 04:26:33 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 63
Message-ID: <5c9dlq$h7e$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: taussky.cs.colorado.edu
Keywords: iomega zip drive BSDi help
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5601

We're trying to get an iomega Zip drive (internal, Adaptec 2940 SCSI 
controller, zip drive on id #5) to work with BSDi 2.1.  Has anybody done
this and gotten it to actually work.  Most people will be using it with
the msdos file system to transport files to and from home.

It could just be me not knowing how to mount disks partitioned with
fdisk correctly, but here's the info I can give you on the drive.

TIA,
Greg

Mount attempt:
--------------

em.cs:smithgr> sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sr0d /mnt
msdos: /dev/sr0d on /mnt: Invalid argument

Disksetup Returns:
------------------

em.cs:smithgr> sudo disksetup /dev/rsr0a
# Missing disk label, default label used.
# Geometry may be incorrect.
# /dev/rsr0a:
type: SCSI
disk: IOMEGA ZIP 100
label: 
flags: removable driver-generated
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 64
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 512
cylinders: 384
sectors/unit: 196608
replacement sectors/track: 0
replacement sectors/cylinder: 0
alternate cylinders: 0
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   196608        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
383)
  c:   196608        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
383)

FDISK table:
#        size   offset scyl shd ssc ecyl ehd esc    type
  1:        0        0    0   0   0    0   0   0   0x00 # (Unused)
  2:        0        0    0   0   0    0   0   0   0x00 # (Unused)
  3:        0        0    0   0   0    0   0   0   0x00 # (Unused)
 *4:   196576       32    0   1   1   95  63  32   0x06 # (DOS)


-- 
Gregory P. Smith  --  smithgr@cs.colorado.edu
http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/~smithgr   (finger for my PGP key)