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From: dave blizzard <dblizzar@sprynet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drives?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:17:18 -0500
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To: "Josef C. Grosch" <jgrosch@xsvr2.cup.hp.com>
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> >Dave
>
> Yes, a number of people including myself have used ZIP drives under
> FreeBSD. I have am internal SCSI drive and it works like a champ.
> I am running the 1 Aug snapshot
>
> Josef
>
Since this response was not very informative, here's how I got it to
work (from another post.
Put the following in /etc/disktab
zip|zip 100:\
:ty=removable:se#512:nc#96:nt#64:ns#32:\
:pa#196608:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\
:pb#196608:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\
:pc#196608:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512:
then unixfy the disk
% disklabel -r -w -B sd1 zip
% newfs /dev/rsd1a
changing sd1 to whatever you need.
The problem is that while the zip drive works great as sd1, TAR can't
properly write multi volume backups to it. It writes the backup (using
tar -M etc) but can't retrieve more than one volume at a time. Small
details I guess.
Dave B