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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disktab for JAZ / ZIP drive?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:58:46 +1000
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To: Murray Taylor <mjtlx@ozemail.com.au>
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Murray Taylor wrote:
>
> On 12 Apr 1997 18:49:57 GMT, jedi@best.com (Jay Martel) wrote:
>
> >
> >Howdy,
> >
> >I just got my external scsi jaz drive and I cannot use it
> >on FreeBSD 2.1.6.
> >
>
> I.e. it sorta works in that it gets the right medium size but it
> doesn't work in that it also "falls over" on the initial access. I
> cannot mount the drive at any later stage either.
>
> Is there some known problem with the IOMEGA SCSI interface
> or some other cause.....
Not that I am aware of... I have 2 ZIP drives which have been connected
to various systems and worked happily.
The disktab entry I use is
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:
You might want to play with the partition layout somewhat. The above
was sufficient to create a bootable FreeBSD disk!
For the Jaz drive, just make the number of cylinders (nc) bigger to get
the right number of 512-byte blocks.
Tony