Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:38:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: junichi@astec.co.jp (Satoh Junichi) Cc: jeays@statcan.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip drive Message-ID: <199803311638.IAA00460@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 17:32:21 %2B0900." <199803310832.RAA24379@tamtam.astec.co.jp>
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> > wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk) ## There WAS a disk in it! ## > > No problem. The wfd driver always says so when it found the ATAPI ZIP > drive. I have to add code to probe ZIP correctly. (^^; The problem here is that the Zip is fairly unhelpful when it comes to telling you what's in the drive. In this case, the message should probably not be printed. > > When I attempt to mount either the CD-ROM or the ZIP drive, mount > > hangs, and I have to interrupt it with ctrl-C. If I do this > > a second time, the system crashes. (X stops. Attempts to > > log on through another tty don't work - characters entered after > > the login prompt just get echoed to the screen. It is big red > > switch time!) > > Hmm... I don't know why. > I'll test if the ZIP drive works well with a CD-ROM drive. The problem is that the ATAPI Zip drive doesn't coexist well with our ATAPI code and a CDROM. The Zip has highlighted a number of problems with the way we do ATAPI, and this is one of them. You can try moving the Zip and CDROM to separate IDE channels, which should cure your problem. > > If I disconnect the CD-ROM and make the Zip drive the master, > > things seems a tiny bit better. When I attempt a disklabel, I get: > > > > /home/mike% disklabel -r -w wfd0 auto > > disklabel: /dev/rwfd0c: Undefined error: 0 > > The light on the drive blinks once. > It occurs when the ZIP disk has incorrect fdisk informatinos. > You need to execute 'fdisk wfd0' and create the FreeBSD slice on the > first time. You can do this another way: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wfd0 count=16 # disklabel -rwB wfd0 auto # disklabel -e wfd0 <edit disklabel to suit> -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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