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From: Marc Horowitz <marc@rover.cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Formatting Zip for NetBSD/Mac68k?
Date: 30 Jan 1997 00:06:03 -0500
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tycheung@ultrasparc.millburn.org (Tyler Cheung) writes:
>> I am having trouble formatting a Zip disk for NetBSD; I create a A/UX 3.0
>> setup partition with SilverLining, and then attempt to use the mkfs
>> application to set up the BSD file system; the program asks for some
>> esoteric settings, i.e. size of setors, block size, track size, etc. and
>> I'm not able to get past this part. Has anyone been able to set up a Zip
>> disk for NetBSD? If so what settings did they use for mkfs?
Here's the /etc/disktab entry I'm using with netbsd 1.2-current i386.
I'd think it should work as-is, but haven't tried it on any other
platform.
zip100|zip|Iomega 100mb Zip Cartridges:\
:dt=SCSI:se#512:ns#32:nt#64:sc#2048:nc#96:\
:pa#196608:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:pc#196608:oa#0:tc=4.2BSD:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
:pd#196608:od#0:td=4.2BSD:bd#8192:fd#1024:
Marc