I looked at the disktab man page for netbsd and it looks like the format
is incompatible. would you happen to know what the sun codes mean?

Thanks


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
> To: "Ben Bogart (admin)" <bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: ZIP disktab
> 
> 
> 
> the suggested settings from IOmega for a Solaris /etc/format.dat entry
> are:
> 
> # to use a zip, 'format' to format then 
> # newfs -v /dev/rsdXc
> # mount /dev/sdXc /mnt
> disk_type="Zip 100"\
>       :ctlr=SCSI\
>       :ncyl=2406:acyl=2:pcyl=2408:nhead=2\
>       :nsect=40:rpm=3600:bpt=20480
> 
> partition="Zip 100"\
>       :disk="Zip 100":ctlr=SCSI\
>       :2=0,192480
>       :2=0,1159168
> 
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> -Dan
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ben Bogart (admin) wrote:
> 
> > anyone have a nice disktab entry for a SCSI ZIP drive? 
> > am I right in assuming that a disktab entry can be written to a disk as a
> > disklabel? I simply need to be able to read ffs zips on port-i386 and
> > port-amiga. 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > B. Bogart
> > Convergent Media Designer
> > --------------------------
> > Through scientific absolution we move further and further away from ourselves.
> > 
> 
> 



B. Bogart
Convergent Media Designer
--------------------------
Through scientific absolution we move further and further away from ourselves.