Subject: Re: Zip drives & RiscBSD. Was Re: Linux for RPC?
To: William Gallafent <william.gallafent@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/11/1998 20:04:33
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, William Gallafent wrote:

> Hmmm, speaking of which, I'm still playing around with my ATAPI zip
> drive, which currently resides on the internal interface. In the
> bootup messages it is recognised, but doesn't get assigned to a device
> - it says something like 'type 1 removable - not configured'.
> 
> Is this because there's not yet enough ATAPI support in NetBSD (1.3
> Release), or do I need to do something to makedev?
> 
It is because that ATAPI support in 1.3 is limited to CD-ROM devices.
NetBSD-current has preliminary support for ATAPI disk devices like the ZIP
drive.

Mike