Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:14:40 -0700 From: mwood@familyradio.com To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Internal Zip drive Message-ID: <39F5EDB0.19501.12FDABB@localhost>
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Hello, I wouldn't imagine that I'm the first one to mention this, but in the course of trying to use an internal zip drive, I discovered that FreeBSD 4.1.1 "sees" the zip drive as afd0s4 (or at least afd0, the s4 of course referring to the fourth partition). I could not readily find in any documentation any reference to afd0. I may have missed something, and if so, I apologize. The way I discovered that FreeBSD "sees" the zip drive as afd0 was that I ran dmesg, and toward the end of the listing I saw where the zip drive was listed, and I looked to the left to see what designation it was given. Anyhow, I just wanted to ask that you please update your documentation as this took a couple of hours of searching, reading, trying this, that, and the other thing, and it was very frustrating. And, ultimately, I was able to figure it out, but a lot of people might not be as persistant as I was. I am trying to evaluate FreeBSD because a friend told me that memory management with FreeBSD is better than with Linux. So, I have not yet purchased a "full" copy; I only have the "install" CD. Maybe the documentation in the full version covers this - I don't know - but other people may not have the time to pursue a problem like this, and may "write-off" FreeBSD. F Y I . . . Michael Wood LAN Administrator Family Stations, Inc. Oakland, CA mwood@familyradio.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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