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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:27:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Simon Coggins <chaos@ultra.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IOMEGA ZIP IDE Drive, Detected but not assigned a device.. WHY? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971030012552.9779B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971030181001.18782C-100000@ultra.ultra.net.au>

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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Simon Coggins wrote:

> 
> Heya,
> 
> I just purchased an IDE ZIP drive (yeah yuk people say but it was cheap
> enough).. I'm having the problem that it's detected on boot up buty isn't
> assigned to a device..
> 
> EG:
> 
> wdc0: ....
> wdc0: unit 0 maxtor......
> wd0: 1024 mesg ... drive geom..
> wdc0: uni 1 IOMEGA ATAPI ZIP ....
> <rest of devices>
> 
> it doesn't assign it anything i can access in /dev :/ 
> 
eh?
of course not!
teh kernel never makes entries in /dev
that's up to you to do..

have you tried using /dev/rwd1?

if it doesn't work then I guess we have work to do..

> Help please! :)
> 
> Regards 
> Simon
> 
> PS: Please make sure replies are CC'ed to me as I'm not on this list yet
> (still waiting aproval)
> 
> 
> 
> 




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