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From: awan@hathor.mch.sni.de (Hans Wander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD
Date: 27 Aug 1995 22:28:58 +0200
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG
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In article <41q5lm$p2q@reason.cdrom.com>,
>However, if you run disklabel and newfs
>(see man pages for both) by hand on it, you'll probably not have too much
>trouble.
whenever I try to write a label, the result is:
disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device

it's very frustrating.

Hans
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