From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 21:56:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01610 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01603 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00648; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:56:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jeffrey Lang cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Iomega JAZ drive In-Reply-To: <3239C797.4BA@pbi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Lang wrote: > According to the IOmega documentation the JAZ drive is compatable > replacement for a standard SCSI drive. > > In trying to setup the drive it returns an error about getting the label > of off the drive. When trying to write the label you get an error that > it doesn't support write label IOCTL. I'd recommend going through the -questions mail archives on http://www.freebsd.org and search for 'jaz'. There has been quite a bit of discussion on the Jaz (and the Zip, which is very similiar). You may find something of use. Note that the Jaz and Zip don't support the 'mode sense' command so the system has to make up a geometry, which may or may not be correct. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major