Hi,

On 25-Aug-98 Leo Weppelman wrote:
> On Mon 17 Aug 1998, Mike Sienicki wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> Is the Zip Drive currently supported under NetBSD V1.3.2?  I know that the
>> system
>> does recognize the drive, but, I am unable to mount an msdos partitioned
>> Zip disk.  I think that the system was complaining that the disk was
>> lacking an
>> appropriate partition.  How can I partition this disk to be compatible with
>> the system.  Am I lacking something?  Is there yet any way to format a Zip
>> disk with either an FFS or msdos format?  Dying of curiosity.

I don't know about the msdos format but here is the script I use to create a
zip disk with an ffs filesystem:

#!/bin/sh
echo -n labeling zip disk ...
disklabel -w -r /dev/rsd5c zip
echo done
echo creating filesystem on zip disk ...
newfs -i 16384 /dev/rsd5c

The '5' in the device names has to be replaced with the disk id of the zip
drive. See newfs(8) for an explanation of the '-i' parameter.

> I was hoping someone familiar with a ZIP drive would standup, I can only
> make guesses ;-)

I was a bit slow again, sorry :-(
BTW, Leo, do you remember my problem with the 1.3.1 kernel some time ago?
I upgraded to 1.3.2 when it came out by applying the diffs to my sources and had
no problems ever since. I guess I will never find out what went wrong ...

Greetings

Mike

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