Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:32:04 -0700 (PDT) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Zip Help...please Message-ID: <XFMail.980731153204.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807311528260.14321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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 <wwoods@cybcon.com> --> 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
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