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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI zip drive experiences? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <54t3of$bqd@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de> <3272B1DD.33F8@onthenet.com.au> <550h8h$eus@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:08:32 UTC Lines: 42 Apart from having to ignore lots of silly warnings when you change media, my zip drive works just fine with both ufs and DOS partitions. Here are the tricks: The default partition on new zip disks puts the msdos fs in the 4th (FDISK) partition, so mount msdos filesystems with /dev/sd1s4 (changing the 1 as appropriate, of course). If you want to make unix zip disks, puting this in the disktab will help: zip:\ :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: Now do this when you have a new disk you want to unixify: % disklabel -r -w -B sd1 zip % newfs /dev/rsd1a (again, changing sd1 as appropriate). The only other thing you have to do is ignore the warnings. Jórg: Does the od driver just do the same thing as the sd driver except for ignoring the warnings? I tried to diff the two, but that was futile since everything that was 'sd->' in one ended up 'od->' in the other (etc). P.s. as is usual for the hard disk industry, they lied when they said 100 MB. It's really 98304 KB, or 96 MB. They just used 1000*1000 as a "MB" instead of 1024*1024 like the rest of us. When are we going to all pull the whistle on that "industry standard" fraud? -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | "Hubba hubba hubba, pig bastard." +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | -- Scorpio (from Dirty Harry)