Jell-O wrote on 2.2.1996
  Re: I noticed that NetBSD 1.1....

- >(having installed NetBSD-1.1/mac successfully; now waiting for a 68882 for
- >my IIsi :-(
-
- Cool, I'm not the only one who got really frustrated with the ZIP disks.
- Anyway, I finally figured out the secret to making a file system with a ZIP
- disk using mkfs:
-
-
- Use "512" as the magic number for any values that weren't automatically
- detected and any values that you know are valid that mkfs needs to create a
- file system on a ZIP disk (ex. tracks/cylnd = 512, Iomega doesn't tell you
- that).

Hi,

you might want this /etc/disktab entry I got for my FreeBSD system. It
should be work for NetBSD as well (I havn't tried it yet):

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:05 +0100
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
Subject: Re: SyQuest Ex-135 drive...
Status:

On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Lutz Albers wrote:

> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960117155839.5101B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>,
> Chuck Robey writes:
>
> -didn't describe the drive at all.  I have a similar drive, an Iomega Zip
> -drive, and it works fine with my Adaptec 1542.  The only trick is getting
> -a correct entry in the /etc/disktab file for your device, so it can
> -format and newfs correctly.  Justin Gibbs figured mine out for me, and it
>
> Hello,
>
> while I've got my ZIP drive working without a disktab entry (I just used
> the install floppy from 2.1), I'm nevertheless interessted in this entry.
> Could you mail it to me ?

No problem:

zip100|Iomega Zip 100: \
        :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:se#512:nt#64:ns#32:nc#96:rm#3600:\
        :pa#196576:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD: \
        :pc#196576:oc#0:



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