Subject: Re: SCSI card setup
To: JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com>
From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/14/2003 00:00:42
JS [Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:51:59PM -0800]:
> Since it is working, I would like to format the scsi
> hard drive and the iomega zip drive I have attached to
> it so NetBSD would recognize them as usual hard
> drives. How would I go about doing that?

Please check chapter 24.8. "Adding a new hard disk" of NetBSD Guide for
general clues about adding new hard drives to your system.

	http://netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-misc.html#id3041601
	
Want it faster? Consider "softdep" and "noatime" options to mount(8) (read
the man page before using, as usual).
	
About the ZIP... You can propably use FFS on them, but I'd format it to
FAT32, just to make sure they'll be readable on non-NetBSD systems. You can
use "mtools" package from pkgsrc to do that (the command is called "mformat"
- mtools generally should handle MS-DOS filesystems and their derivates, but
I'm not quite sure if they have support for FAT32, I checked them long time
ago). And, as always, make sure you've got msdosfs in your kernel enabled.
For generic instructions about kernel recompilation, check the NetBSD Guide.

Take care,
-- 
Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl