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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: observations with the ata-driver (hd and zip drive)
In-Reply-To: <383E4F6F.9A99DD6A@fernuni-hagen.de> from "F. Heinrichmeyer" at "Nov 26, 1999 10:14:23 am"
To: fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de (F. Heinrichmeyer)
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:26:32 +0100 (CET)
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It seems F. Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> more observations to the zip-drive problem:
> First the relevant dmesg-line:
> 
>  atapi: MODE_SENSE_BIG - UNIT ATTENTION skey=6 asc=29 ascq=00 error=00
>  afd0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/23.D> rewriteable drive at ata0 as master
>  afd0: 96MB (196608 sectors), 32 cyls, 64 heads, 96 S/T, 512 B/S
>  afd0: 4096KB/s, transfer limit 64 blks, PIO
>  afd0: Medium: Unknown media (0x0)

That looks like it should...

> second :
> 
> the first 512 bytes of /dev/rfd* are identical, here are checksums:
> 
> 61088 1 rafd0.txt
> 61088 1 rafd0s4.txt
> 
> here are some lines of the files in emacs hexl-mode:
> 
> 00000000: eb2e 4950 4152 5420 636f 6465 2030 3039  ..IPART code 009
> 00000010: 202d 2049 6f6d 6567 6120 436f 7270 6f72   - Iomega Corpor
> 00000020: 6174 696f 6e20 2d20 3131 2f32 332f 3930  ation - 11/23/90
> 00000030: fafc 8cc8 8ed0 bc00 7c8e d88e c0b9 0002  ........|.......
> 
> the zip disks where formatted under windows, of course.
> 
> trying to mount the zip-drive gives:
> msdos: /dev/afd0s4: Invalid argument

This has appeared before IIRC, I've no idea why this doesn't work,
but I can rig up my ZIP drive, but I dont have DOS nor WINDOWS,
do it fail also if the disk is formatted under FreeBSD ?? 

-Søren


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