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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Jazz Drives Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:41:09 GMT Organization: This house? Are you kidding? Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5cgc4m$9j5@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <5c4vt6$g1d@nr1.toronto.istar.net> <01bc0b05$f4a30e40$3c8f6f80@borg_homeworld> NNTP-Posting-Host: man-as9s55.erols.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34549 "John" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote: >G., >I'm running FreeBSD off of a Jaz drive, with the NCR 53C810 controller. I >have had a couple of hiccups with this system that I can't explain: >1. Everytime the system boots BSD, I get the following message when the >NCR driver does its probe on the Jaz drive: > sd1(ncr0:2:0) illegal request asc:24,0 invalid field in CDB > sd1(ncr0:2:0) could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry That's because Iomega, in their infinite wisdom, didn't put SCSI-standard geometry info on the Zip and the Jaz. I would guess they're trying to hide a trade secret or something.... >2. On one occasion, *Something* corrupted the entire BSD file system. I'm >not sure, but I think it happened when I mounted my FAT drive and moved >(with the mv command) a .tgz file over onto the BSD side. After the move, >the .tgz file was unreadable. And of course it was gone from the FAT side, >so I couldn't check the integrity of the original file. Shortly after >that, I discovered the root file system was also trashed. The msdosfs code is buggy at the moment; mv'ing large files from BSD to DOS will burn your house down. Use cp instead. Lee C.