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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cambridge-news.cygnus.com!usenet-ma From: Marc Horowitz <marc@rover.cygnus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Zip drive under NetBSD/Sparc 1.2? Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:44:53 -0500 Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 41 Message-ID: <t53afsbgx62.fsf@rover.cygnus.com> References: <56ug0s$nqj@engr.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.cygnus.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 smithro@wy.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Smith Robert) writes: >> Can someone please tell me how to get an IOMEGA ZIP 100 >> drive to work on my Sparc running NetBSD 1.2?? >> >> I believe it's just a matter of setting the proper >> geometry in disktab, but for the life of me I cannot >> find that geometry posted anywhere on the net. Here's the disklabel I'm using for mine. I've actually booted netbsd (1.2B/i386) off the zip drive, which is pretty cool. Having the entire OS, including man pages, on your install media is great :-) # /dev/rsd1a: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: fictitious flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 96 total sectors: 196608 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 4 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 196608 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 95) d: 196608 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 95) Under SunOS, I had to use two fewer cylinders, since the OS required two alternate cylinders. YMMV. Marc