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Date:      Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:49:08 -0800
From:      Tom <tgs@cats.ucsc.edu>
To:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   More fun with iomega...
Message-ID:  <33422B94.167EB0E7@cats.ucsc.edu>

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(no this is not an april fools joke, although it seems like it)

I've been reading through the mailing list archives for similar
problems, but I haven't seen any..

My first problem.
I took somsones advice and used scsiformat -w sd0 on my jaz disk.
It went find for about 20 minutes, then stopped.
The process was hung, didn't respond to a kill -9 or -15
I rebooted.

After a couple tries to format the disk, I gave up and went 
to format it on another machine(Mac), and it worked fine there.

Since I'm an irc nut, I decided to ask a couple people on #freebsd
seeing as how I hang out there a fair amount. Someone suggested using
sysinstall to edit the partitions and that kind of thing.
So I attempted, and it failed apparently.
Next time I run sysinstall, I get this messages....
Apr  1 21:17:33 bifrost /kernel: sd0: error reading primary partition
table reading fsbn 0 (sd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) 

I'm stuck...the cartridge seems to work with dos/mac, but I really
bought it for use with FreeBSD...

My big problem seems to be that things hang when I use them on my jaz,
I'm going to check the termination and all that, but I'm not sure what I
can do... 

Anyone in the Santa Cruz or SF bay area want to format this disk for me?
I can pay, I'm desparate :)

here's my SCSI related dmesg output..
There is no media in the drive at the moment...
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ncr0 <ncr 53c825 wide scsi> rev 2 int a irq 10 on pci0:15
(ncr0:4:0): "iomega jaz 1GB H.72" type 0 removable SCSI 2
sd0(ncr0:4:0): Direct-Access
sd0(ncr0:4:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.

sd0(ncr0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
sd0 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry

sd0(ncr0:4:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present
sd0: could not get size
0MB (0 512 byte sectors) 
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