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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed.luth.se!news.luth.se!newsfeed.sunet.se!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc -news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: jazz (JAZ) drive Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 19:47:14 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 38 Message-ID: <R.Z-KS8gS.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <4r0f1r$nod@nuscc.nus.sg> <31D4E03E.2781@onthenet.com.au> <3238abb8.2757649@news.inetnebr.com> <51b4u7$h0i@news.cdsnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. I followed your prescription, formatting, then "disklabel -r -w sd2 auto" which yielded several messages: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic then "newfs /dev/rsd2c" which yielded several similar messages: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic ... and the usual messages describing the number of sectors unallocated, superblock placement, etc.. when I mount sd2, "mount /dev/sd2c /jaz2", I get the "sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic" message triad again. Anyway, it works: I can mount it and toss files in. When I boot the system, I have always received the following messages regarding the jaz drive. ... (ahc0:2:0): "iomega jaz 1GB H.62" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd2(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access sd2(ahc0:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using fictitious geometry 1021MB (2091050 512 byte sectors) ... Environment: bsd 2.1.5R, adaptec 2940uw, asus xp6np5 Just as a sanity check, I was wondering, do you see the same behaviors?