From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 27 13:30:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27869 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27847; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tsunami.awod.com (chs0184.awod.com [206.31.146.184]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA16093; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:30:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960827203043.0091dd20@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:30:43 -0400 To: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: Jaz really work? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:50 PM 8/27/96 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > >I could've sworn I saw somebody say on this list that the IOMEGA Jaz drive >drops right in and goes. Well, yes. Once you have disabled the write protection of the Jazz drive, I assume that you are using the tools cartdrige? You need to do their software install and run reclaim to delete the mac or pc "partition" and un-write protect it. This is a iomega "software" protection built into the drive. >So I went and bought one. I love mine, fast, quiet, .... maybe I'll just get 6 more and eliminate all my drives :) >I can't get it to work. It always says the drive is write protected. >There's numerous errors about mode sense (4), and some other goop. No problem with mode sense, it just isn't reporting a valid disk geometry, but should still work fine since it correctly reports the valid number of sectors. I've used mine on 2.1, 2.1.5, 2.2-Current and 8-XX SNAP. It is just another scsi drive, although you want it as a higher scsi ID than your CDROM during installation b/c otherwise during package or ports install, the system tried to mount that as the cdrom to install from. I'm assuming that FBSD tries using the first removable device as the CDROM from sysinstall? >P6-200, Adaptec 2940, -current as of 8/26, 2 4GB Barracuda, 1 Fuji 4GB >disk, Toshiba CDROM, JAZ drive. Will trade with you :) -Ken --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"