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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.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI zip drive experiences? Message-ID: <nDyPYY3@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) 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> <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com> <557g9d$r5@anorak.coverform.lan> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:35:20 UTC Lines: 29 brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: >In article <nDh6fUy@quack.kfu.com>, > nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: >: 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: >Eek ! You've got your a and b partitions on the same space ! Bad news. Only if you tried to use them both at the same time. The floppy definitions do the same thing. >I'd suggest removing the pb line ! Also, you shouldn't need bc & fc. >Making these changes may even remove some warnings :) Nope. The warnings are mode sense conditions because sd doesn't expect the media to change on the fly. -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | Macintosh: N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | The computer for the rest of them. URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |