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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Parrish Myers <parrish@engr.arizona.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Zip Drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825223840.3179U-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970818163138.5547A-100000@engr.arizona.edu>

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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Parrish Myers wrote:

> I like to know I you can solve a problem I am having.  I have installed
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE.  I can't seem to mount my Zip drive.  I have an
> AHA-2940 UW scsi adapter and a scsi zip drive set to id: 5.
> 
> I think I am doing this right...
> 
> mount /dev/sd0s1 /zip
> 
> The responce is a page full of error messages:
> 
> Aug 18 16:30:33 jester /kernel: sd0(ahc0:5:0): ILLEGSAL REQUEST asc:24,0
> Invalid field in CDB
> 
> Aug 18 16:30:33 jester /kernel: sd0 could not mode sence (4). Using
> ficticious geometry
> 
> /dev/sd0s1 on /zip: Incorrect super block.

Is this a UFS-formatted or a MSDOS-formatted disk?

For MSDOS, you want to do:

mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /zip

For UFS:

mount /dev/sd0c /zip

(I tried to use the slice notation and it didn't work for me, but then
again my Zip disk is UFS formatted.)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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