From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 11:40:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DD937B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:40:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f16Je5f21965; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:40:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot mount a zip drive References: <01020618405700.00338@vulpecula.universe> <3A7FF91D.ADA73153@ocsinternet.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Feb 2001 14:40:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: mikel@ocsinternet.com's message of "6 Feb 2001 14:15:40 +0100" Message-ID: <44ae7ztxbf.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 50 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mikel@ocsinternet.com (Mikel King) writes: > Have you tried something like?: mount -w -t msdos /dev/adf0 /zip That's completely equivalent to the "mount_msdos /dev/afd0 /zip" that the poster already tried. > Charlie & wrote: > > I tried to mount a zip disk formatted in FAT16 in a FreeBSD 4.2 system, but > > failed. The zip drive would move when I issued the 'mount_msdos' command but > > reported error. The following shows my procedures. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > > > Alan Tsang > > > > vulpecula# dmesg | grep ZIP > > afd0: 96MB [32/64/96] at ata1-slave using PIO0 Okay, good, that shows that it's in the kernel. > > vulpecula# ll -d /zip > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 6 18:29 /zip > > > > vulpecula# ll /dev/afd* > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0x00010002 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0 > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0a > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 1 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0b > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 2 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0c > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 3 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0d > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 4 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0e > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 5 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0f > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 6 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0g > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 7 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0h > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0x00020002 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0s1 > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0x00030002 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0s2 > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0x00040002 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0s3 > > crw-r----- 2 root operator 118, 0x00050002 Feb 5 02:17 /dev/afd0s4 Okay, I'll assume those are up-to-date (if your kernel is from a newer set of sources, you'll need to re-make all your devices to be safe). > > vulpecula# mount_msdos /dev/afd0 /zip > > mount_msdos: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument This should be about right, but I'm suspicious of the slice value. Should it, perhaps, be afd0s4? [I don't have a Zip disk, so I can't check, but I think the factory layout would be the fourth slice. Definitely check the FAQ entry on how to use a removable drive. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message