From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 16 15:53:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 15:53:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC9C37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from 207-172-57-209.s209.tnt2.ann.va.dialup.rcn.com ([207.172.57.209] helo=erols.com) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #5) id 147R8e-0002hl-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:53:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3A3C042B.24FDBBF8@erols.com> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:09:15 -0500 From: Abraham Zeira X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SCSI (Castlewood) ORB Drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, For six months now I try to mount my SCSI Castlewood ORB drive as a DOS partition to no avail. Can you figure this one out please? Computer: Athlon 700 Memory: 256 Mb OS: FreeBSD 4.0 The corresponding lines in /var/log/messages are: Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da1: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da1: 2103MB (4307184 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 268C) Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da2 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da2: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Dec 16 15:43:59 /kernel: da2: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present The corresponding lines in /var/run/dmesg.boot are: Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da1: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) da1: 2103MB (4307184 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 268C) da2 at vpo0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 da2: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present The output from fdisk /dev/da1 is: ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=534 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=534 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 5,(Extended DOS) start 8064, size 4178048 (2040 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 517/ sector 63/ head 127 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: The relevant lines int /etc/fstab looks like this: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da1s1 /orb msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/da2s4 /izip msdos rw,noauto 0 0 Yet, when I issue a "mount /izip" it will mount the zip drive properly but when I issue a "mount /orb" it complains: msdos: /dev/da1s1: Invalid argument I tried /dev/da1s1 through /dev/da1s4 as well as /dev/da1a through /dev/da1h but no success. Please help Thanks Rami Zeira rzeira@erols.com (301) 231-6099 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message