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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 08:26:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Aaron Yeung <aaronx@fearme.com>
To:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Cc:        Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi zip drive
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980520082628.aaronx@fearme.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980520102845.A10417@ct.picker.com>

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can you please send the scripts :-)

oh and btw, how do you eject the zip disk? like just umount it then press eject?

On 20-May-98 Randall Hopper wrote:
> Aaron Yeung:
>  |        ok the scsi iomega zip drive works now, i have recompiled my
>  |kernel with scbus0 and sd0 uncommented, and when i try to mount it or
>  |someone told me to do disklabel -r /dev/sd0, the zip drive makes a noise,
>  |and gives an error.
> 
> Just read the whole thread, and I'm a little surprised no-one has been able
> to give you the right answer yet.
> 
> If this is a stock ZIP disk that hasn't been reformatted, the DOS FAT (aka
> "msdos") file system slice is going to be on Slice #4.  So what you want is:
> 
>        mkdir /zip
>        mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip
> 
> You can run "fdisk sd0" to double-check where it is.
> 
> Of course, if you want you can reformat the disk so that a DOS FAT file
> system is attached to any of these slices (1-4), or you can put a FreeBSD
> UFS file system on the disk instead and attach it to any of these slices
> (1-4).  The latter gives you long filenames, UNIX permissions, etc.
> 
> If you want a script that'll cook UFS ZIP disks in FreeBSD, just let me
> know.  I too have a SCSI ZIP on sd0.
> 
> You can also insert an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab so that normally all
> you need to do is type "mount /zip" and it'll do the "mount -t msdos
> /dev/sd0s4 /zip" for you.  Let me know if you'd like me to mail it to you.
> 
> Finally I have a few cheesy setuid perl scripts I can mail you too so you
> can mount and unmount your ZIP disks without having to become root first.
> Again, just let me know.
> 
> Randall

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Date: 20-May-98
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