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Date:      Sat, 29 May 1999 19:29:59 +0100
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
To:        charon@freethought.org
Cc:        Bill Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Parallel port zip drive ??
Message-ID:  <37503227.D72A7F7A@cream.org>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19990528140725.009eab10@mail>

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charon@freethought.org wrote: 
> Not as far as I know.  I had to piece together clues from the FAQ and the
> mailing list.  It turns out to be easy  :)
> 
> 1. Check your kernel.  You need the options "scbus0", "da0", "ppbus0", and
> "vpo0" uncommented.  By default all of these but vpo0 are uncommented.  If
> you need to, make a new kernel.
> 
> 2. That's it.  When you want to mount it, it's da0s4 (I don't know why), so
> you would 'mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt/zip' or whatever.

I've checked this, and it certainly works well on my 3.1-RELEASE system.

I've also submitted a PR (docs/11927) to have the FAQ updated with these
instuctions.

Many thanks!
-- 
Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
http://sour.cream.org/


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