Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:58:54 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting usb zip drive? Message-ID: <20010501115854.A77880@everest.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <200104301730.f3UHUJs00527@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from "Richard E. Hawkins" on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:30:19PM -0400 References: <200104301730.f3UHUJs00527@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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* Richard E. Hawkins <dochawk@psu.edu> [20010430 20:30]: writing on the subject 'mounting usb zip drive?' Richard> Richard> I must be dense. I've found all kinds of bits and pieces about Richard> configuring for a usb zip drive, but none telling me how or where. Richard> Richard> Apparenty I included usb in my kernel (Why I did this months ago when I Richard> only discovered the machine has usb ports today is another question). Richard> At the end of boot, dmesg has Richard> Richard> starting standard daemons: Richard> inetd Richard> cron Richard> printer Richard> sendmail Richard> sshd Richard> usbd Richard> uhci0: <Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) USB controller> port 0x5000-0x501f irq 10 at devic Richard> e 1.2 on pci0 Richard> usb0: <Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) USB controller> on uhci0 Richard> usb0: USB revision 1.0 Richard> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 Richard> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered Richard> Richard> Richard> Would it just be Richard> Richard> mount_msdos /dev/scd0a /mnt Richard> Richard> ?? Hi Richard, Sorry but it's not good of a Proffessor to talk of being dense. S/He's a proffessor!! <smile> IMHO, the Zip disk will be supported by the umass device in the kernel. Now all that you need to do is to compile a kernel with the following options intact: # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # USB support device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen # Generic device uhid # "Human Interface Devices" device ukbd # Keyboard device ulpt # Printer device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da device ums # Mouse You might not need the rest but I cannot guess how many other USB devices you'll have and since kernel compile isn't what we wanna do on a daily basis, I'd rather you just compile with support for those 'other' devices. At the moment your kernel has not detected the USB Zip drive. I hope you know how to compile a kernel (you may not be a proffessor of FreeBSD ;-))? After recompiling and rebooting you'll see the device name the kernel will give to your USB Zip drive and that is what you'll need to use for your mount command. There maybe some little variation to it, like I do mount_msdos /dev/da2s4 /zip da2 was the major device name I saw in dmesg and ....and some reading I did gave me the s4...... Maybe I can be of some help once it's detected?? Best regards... -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. Cellular: 254 72 743223 If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down. If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down. If the bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will exceed all expectations. -- Reverend Chichester To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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