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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 22:46:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        laszlo vagner <vetex@WWW.TIMANDPATRICK.COM>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: another good comment on zip
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905312245330.4498-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990530202008.vetex@vetex.com>

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On Sun, 30 May 1999, laszlo vagner wrote:

> I have a parrallel port zip and always had 
> problems with the clicking of the drive.
> 
> today i was saving stuff in msdos format with
> freebsd 3.2 and the clicking kept happening
> and i got an i/o error, half of my files were
> 0 bytes. I decided to try unix format
> and everything copied over well without
> clicking too..!!

You now know of the 'Click of Death'.  Trash the drive _NOW_.  

> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ122.html#disklabel
> 
> shows ffs for the filesystem and I think it should be ufs
> also the sd should be changed to da now.

Can you be specific?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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