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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI IOMEGA Zip Configuration
Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:27:21 GMT
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dave blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com> wrote:

> Jan 23 10:17:11 dblizzar /kernel: (aha0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 N.38" type
> 0 remov
> able SCSI 2
> Jan 23 10:17:11 dblizzar /kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): Direct-Access 
> Jan 23 10:17:11 dblizzar /kernel: sd1(aha0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST
> asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> Jan 23 10:17:11 dblizzar /kernel: sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using
> ficticious geometry
> Jan 23 10:17:11 dblizzar /kernel: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors)

Don't worry.  IOMEGA didn't bother to implement the `rigid disk
geometry' mode page, where a disk normally reports about its number of
heads and cylinders.  The drive should work nevertheless.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)