Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 22:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Nathan Melhorn <n_melhor@webster.Telebit.COM> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Adding devices to boot.flp Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960716223555.272I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9606168375.AA837534837@smtpgate.chelmsford.telebit.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Nathan Melhorn wrote: > >> I was fairly successful adding parallel port IoMega ZipDrive > Searching the net, I found: > > http://www.torque.net/zip.html {mostly Linux ->} > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html {FreeBSD ->} > ftp://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.c {the source} There was an annoucement in -questions that a driver had been written by Nicolas. I have to say that I am impressed that the unix community pulled it at all. > The only (other) problem is in accessing my MSDOS/FAT file systems. It > occurs both for the hard drive and now for the Zip drive -- if I get > too "busy" on the drive, the FAT structure seems to crash. When I boot > back to MS-DOS, chkdisk/scandisk shows errors which I let it repair. > It seems to happen more when fooling around with directories (vs. > ordinary files). Thus, so far I first stage data on my Unix file > systems, such as .zip and .tar.gz files, and then copy it once to an > MS-DOS file system. Is FreeBSD's MSDOS file system less solid than the > native file system, especially under heavy/multitasking load? Are > there known concurrency problems? Yes. The msdosfs is not in the best of shape. A rewrite is under development. You would be better to use the 'mtools' package for MSDOSFS maniuplations other than on floppies. > I've still to format a ZipDisk as a native Unix file system. How does it detect as? If it has an r-device you should be able to newfs it. The geometry shouldn't matter. > Oh.. too bad. My machine at work is on the net, but the machine at > home is not, and doesn't have a compatible CD-ROM drive. I'd like to > copy a release to a ZipDisk and take it home to install. I'd thus need > Zip drivers (or drivers for my CDROM) in a boot floppy. I think. I > have full sources right now -- it isn't just "cd /usr/src/floppy" and > then typing "make"? They may have revised the system BUT you have to build the mfs image with all the programs, and you have to build all those first, then actually make the mfs image, THEN a boot floppy image. Ugly stuff. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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