From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 07:30:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10389 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 07:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA10365 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 07:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ct.picker.com) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:29:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09563; Wed, 20 May 98 10:29:12 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA10457; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:28:46 -0400 Message-Id: <19980520102845.A10417@ct.picker.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:28:45 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: aaronx@fearme.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer , Jeremy Shaffner Subject: Re: problems mounting iomega scsi zip drive Mail-Followup-To: aaronx@fearme.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer , Jeremy Shaffner References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Aaron Yeung on Sat, May 16, 1998 at 04:08:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron Yeung: | ok the scsi iomega zip drive works now, i have recompiled my |kernel with scbus0 and sd0 uncommented, and when i try to mount it or |someone told me to do disklabel -r /dev/sd0, the zip drive makes a noise, |and gives an error. Just read the whole thread, and I'm a little surprised no-one has been able to give you the right answer yet. If this is a stock ZIP disk that hasn't been reformatted, the DOS FAT (aka "msdos") file system slice is going to be on Slice #4. So what you want is: mkdir /zip mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip You can run "fdisk sd0" to double-check where it is. Of course, if you want you can reformat the disk so that a DOS FAT file system is attached to any of these slices (1-4), or you can put a FreeBSD UFS file system on the disk instead and attach it to any of these slices (1-4). The latter gives you long filenames, UNIX permissions, etc. If you want a script that'll cook UFS ZIP disks in FreeBSD, just let me know. I too have a SCSI ZIP on sd0. You can also insert an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab so that normally all you need to do is type "mount /zip" and it'll do the "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip" for you. Let me know if you'd like me to mail it to you. Finally I have a few cheesy setuid perl scripts I can mail you too so you can mount and unmount your ZIP disks without having to become root first. Again, just let me know. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message