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From: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>,
        "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: question for zip IDE users
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 21:39:40 -0700
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Hi, thanks for the help,
when the system is booted up he drive appears as a normal hard drive:
#dmesg
...
wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <IOMEGA ZIP 100>
wd1: 96 MB (196608 sectors), 512 cyls, 12 heads, 32 S/T, 512 B/S
...

I can mount it once fine, and unmount/mount the same disk as many times as I
want. But if I try to mount a different disk I get the following message:
/wd1s1 on /zip: /dev/wd1s1: Input/output error
or if I try to mount it as a msdos disk:
msdos: /dev/wd1s1: Input/output error

I though I could umount/mount different disks before, but may be wrong. Is
there anybody else who uses a IDE zip drive that could tell me how it works
on their system? As I said before I behaves similarly in dos (can read one
disk, but get error if I insert a different one), but works correctly in
Win95.
Thanks for the help,
Daniel Keller


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To: Daniel "the Bruce" Keller <dkeller > <Daniel "the Bruce" Keller <dkeller
>>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, September 01, 1997 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: question for zip IDE users



>On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am having some problems with my IDE ZIP drive. I thought you could
mount
>> then unmount, then remount with another disk to access different zip
disks,
>> like with all other removable media, but if I do when I try this I get:
>> #mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /zip
>> #ls /zip
>>  archive1 contents.txt
>> #umount /zip
>> #mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s1 /zip
>>  /dev/wd1s1: IO error (this isn't exactly the message, but it is similar)
>
>`Input/Output error', or `bad magic'? Apparently the Zip is getting into
>an inconsistent state.  Is this using a new disk or trying to re-mount the
>old disk?
>
>I didn't know that IDE ZIPs worked; what does the probe message look like?
>It may be that the kernel doesn't recognize it as removable device and
>thinks it's a normal hard disk instead.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon
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