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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:33:02 +0800
From:      Charlie & <root@vulpecula.universe>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        atsang@hk.linkage.net
Subject:   cannot mount a zip drive
Message-ID:  <01020618405700.00338@vulpecula.universe>

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Hi

I tried to mount a zip disk formatted in FAT16 in a FreeBSD 4.2 system, but
failed.  The zip drive would move when I issued the 'mount_msdos' command but
reported error.  The following shows my procedures.  Any help would be
appreciated.

Alan Tsang


vulpecula# dmesg | grep ZIP
afd0: 96MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI> [32/64/96] at ata1-slave using PIO0

vulpecula# ll -d /zip
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Feb  6 18:29 /zip

vulpecula# ll /dev/afd*
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118, 0x00010002 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   0 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0a
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   1 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0b
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   2 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0c
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   3 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0d
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   4 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0e
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   5 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0f
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   6 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0g
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118,   7 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0h
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118, 0x00020002 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0s1
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118, 0x00030002 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0s2
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118, 0x00040002 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0s3
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  118, 0x00050002 Feb  5 02:17 /dev/afd0s4

vulpecula# mount_msdos /dev/afd0 /zip
mount_msdos: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument
vulpecula# mount_msdos /dev/afd0a /zip
mount_msdos: /dev/afd0a: Invalid argument
vulpecula# mount_msdos /dev/afd0c /zip
mount_msdos: /dev/afd0c: Invalid argument
vulpecula# mount_msdos /dev/afd0s1 /zip
mount_msdos: /dev/afd0s1: Invalid argument
vulpecula#                           


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