Audun Arnesen Nordal <audun@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:00:07PM +0100, Audun Arnesen Nordal wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hello all.
>> > 
>> > I tried to follow the steps as described in the "How to use a ZIP
>> > disk"-section at the "Other FAQs and HOWTOs"-page. The disklabel of my
>> > zip is included below. Mounting the 'e'-partition of this zip fails with
>> > an "Invalid argument" error message. The zip is configured as follows:
>> > 
>> > wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1: <IOMEGA ZIP 100>
>> > 
>> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> What command line do you use to mount it ?
>
>Sorry, I forgot to add that. I used a 'mount_msdos /dev/wd1e /mnt'
>
>I should probably add that when I boot netbsd without a zip-disk inserted,
>the message 'wd1: no disk label' is printed, although I assume that is
>correct behaviour. I don't know if this is significant, but the disklabel

Ugh, it looks like you've gotten stuck with one of the _original_ IDE ZIP
drives, from back before they made them ATAPI compliant.  I had one once,
and the only way I could use it under NetBSD was to have the disk in the
drive during startup, and to shutdown before I ejected it.  Trying to
insert a disk into an empty-booted drive while running, or using the manual
eject lever (as the drive locked the eject function) would send the system
into convulsions.  (I think part of that is that NetBSD doesn't support, or
at least didn't support at the time, removable "true IDE" drives, only
ATAPI stuff.)  Eventually, I gave this drive to a Winblows machine (which
handled it using iomega's ASPIIDE.SYS driver) in exchange for the ATAPI
drive that it was using, and I've been happy ever since :)

jdarrow

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