From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 16:22:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F01B16A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:22:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from russo@bogodyn.org) Received: from bogodyn.org (mail.bogodyn.org [216.184.25.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB74E43D4C for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:22:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from russo@bogodyn.org) Received: from bogodyn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bogodyn.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6OGLtGk011569; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:21:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from russo@bogodyn.org) Received: (from russo@localhost) by bogodyn.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6OGLtG7011568; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:21:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from russo) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:21:55 -0600 From: Tom Russo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050724162155.GA11548@bogodyn.org> References: <20050722023347.GA5783@bogodyn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050722023347.GA5783@bogodyn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: International Institute for Advanced Quantum Bogodynamical Studies X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on bogodyn.org Subject: Answering my own question Re: Iomega REV drive, FreeBSD 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: russo@bogodyn.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:22:02 -0000 I'm answering my own question on the mailing list, just to get what I found into the archives in case anyone else has this question. On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:33:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.11. I last updated from STABLE in January: > > FreeBSD bogodyn.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sat Jan 22 13:10:32 MST 2005 russo@bogodyn.org:/users2/obj/usr/src/sys/BOGODYN i386 > > I just purchased an external SCSI Iomga REV 35MB removable medium drive. > [...] > When I attach the device and camcontrol rescan all, I get this in the > /var/log/messages: > > Jul 21 19:22:52 bogodyn /kernel: cd1: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-4 > device [...] > That is, the drive is detected, but as a removable CDROM, This is not peculiar to BSD. Low-level SCSI utilities in the SCSI controller at boot time also fail to recognize this thing as a disk drive, and even on Windows it shows up as a CD-ROM. The only way to write data to it is to use a windows-only driver. And since it doesn't use an ISO-9660 file system, the only way to read data off of it is with a windows-only driver, too. So the thing is a paperweight unless one is using Windows. One can use the windows explorer to copy files into it, and one could use it to back up files if they're on a BSD machine shared by Samba. Useless for system recovery, but perhaps barely functional as a data backup. Live and learn. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 "The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort." -- Norton Juster