From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 18:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20279 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.186.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20274 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03621; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:48:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Randall Hopper cc: Zoltan Sebestyen , FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: BSD fs on SCSI ZIP drive In-Reply-To: <19970713152747.48708@ct.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > | I'd like to format my ZIP disk to BSD fs. My ZIP drive works correctly > |under FreeBSD-2.1.5-RELEASE(I'll update it soon to 2.2) with my DOS > |formatted ZIP disks, although it keeps reporting while booting that it has > |to use fictious geometry, because ZIP doesn't give any. What I'd like to > |know if I can format it without problems. Under DOS and it's buddies -- > |WinNT and WinTOYEARSAGO -- I have to use Iomega's special formatter > |utility. And just one more question: Is there any release date for > |FreeBSD-3.0? > > Regarding UFS on ZIP disks, here's a short script that'll do the trick. > Supports creating sliced (my pref) as well as "dangerously dedicated" UFS > disks. Note: assumes FreeBSD >= 2.2. If you want an script that works > with older versions, just mail me. Alternatively, you can look at http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html for instructions. You treat them as you would any other disk, just make sure you have a disk in there when you boot up so the geometry is probed properly. You should be able to mount your DOS-formatted zip using mount -t msdos /dev/sdXc /mnt, where X is the device number. FreeBSD 3.0 is still in the works. I wouldn't expect anything on that branch anytime soon. There is still lots of life in 2.x. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo