From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 22:46:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F30154A8 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 22:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14471; Mon, 31 May 1999 22:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:46:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: laszlo vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another good comment on zip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message