Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:52:45 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Ian Cartwright <ICartwright@IT.RJF.com>, "FreeBSD Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB Zip drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005151150070.82339-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000510104713.A4587@dan.emsphone.com>
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> 2. shuffle the SCSI IDs so your ZIP has a higher ID USB and any other SCSI controllers have different SCSI busses therefore the devices on them have independent device numberings. > 3. edit /etc/fstab and change the mountpoints to reflect the fact that > your drives have moved. That won't help as USB are sometimes present and sometimes not. Apart from wiring down your devices, there is nothing we can do about it at present. > for b), make sure your scsi bus is idle, plug ZIP thing in and run > "camcontrol rescan". This is dangerous, since you have a chance of You can plug and unplug a running USB Zip drive at any time. That is what USB is about. What that does to your file system and machine is a different issue thought :-) But there is certainly no mechanical or electrical problem with doing that. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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