From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 6:12:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 06:12:15 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9D137B402 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id eBBECDs71554 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:12:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.1/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id eBBECBm11774 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:12:12 +0100 (MET) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02919 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:12:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michel) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:12:11 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: /dev and //port Message-ID: <20001211151211.B2877@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Stable References: <3A349D42.2397C841@attglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3A349D42.2397C841@attglobal.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:24:20AM -0500, youlgok@attglobal.net wrote: > Hi, All: > > After completely installing 4.2-stable-20001208, I re-built a custom > kernel in order to use parallel port zip drive; however, it just hang > when I try to use /dev as instructed in There is no need to rebuild anything to use // port Zip drive. Just kldload vpo (assuming you have plugged the zip and powered it--check with dmesg that it has been probed) After that you mount it. For example if it is dos formatted in slice 4 (the standard way) mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message