Re: ZIP Drive

2003-01-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/x86.html

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Schrodinger wrote:

 I'm looking for help with mounting a zip drive under FreeBSD. I have
 Googled around on this but haven't found anyone with the same problem or
 even better a solution.
 I leave the ZIP disk in the drive before booting the kernel like all the
 help files say and it picks it up:
 da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
 da0: IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.03 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C)
 But when I try to mount it:
 mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt
 it gives me :
 msdos: /dev/da0: Invalid argument
 Why does this keep happening?? What am I doing wrong?

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Re: ZIP Drive

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Hogsett

 mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt
 msdos: /dev/da0: Invalid argument
 Why does this keep happening?? What am I doing wrong?

In the past I found that the zip disks had some odd partitioning.  I often
found the primary partition to be the 4th partition on the disk (the first
three being empty/non-existant/zero-size).

The first thing that sticks out to me above though is that you are not
attempting to mount a partition, but the raw disk.  Try mounting one of:

da0s1
da0s2
da0s3
da0s4  -- I think it is probably this one.

 - Mike

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