From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 15:33:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14398 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14391 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from support1.cybcon.com (support1.cybcon.com [205.147.76.99]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA02918; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: Doug White Subject: Re: Zip Help...please Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, that wasnt the problem, I had to do a ./MAKEDEV sd6 in /dev/ and that fixed everything. Thanks for the quick reply though. On 31-Jul-98 Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: > >> OK, I am tryiing to format a ZIP drive on sd6: >> >> this is what I am doing and the error I am getting.... >> >> bash-2.01# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd6 count=100 >> 100+0 records in >> 100+0 records out >> 51200 bytes transferred in 2.038929 secs (25111 bytes/sec) >> bash-2.01# disklabel -rw sd6 zip100 >> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device <<-- What's >> this? > > It means that sd6 didn't want your disklabel. Make sure it's found during > the boot probes, and boot with a disc in the drive so the the drive size > information is found. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ > for info. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major ---------------------------------- William Woods --> FreeBSD 3.0 CURRENT <-- Date: 31-Jul-98 Time: 15:29:23 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message