> 
> I've been trying to set up a Zip drive for use with NetBSD/mac.  My
> problem right now is that I can't seem to update the in-core kernel copy
> of the disklabel information.
> 
> What I've done:
>     1)  created an entry in /etc/disktab called 'zip100'
>     2)  inserted the Zip disk into the drive
>     3)  My Zip drive is SCSI device #1, so I ran:
> 
>             disklabel -w -r /dev/sd1c zip100
> 
> 'disklabel' always causes a bunch of error messages to occur when run
> for the first time.  It will say that it cannot modesense from sd1, and
> so it will use a fictitious geometry for the drive.

disklabel doesn't write under NetBSD/mac68k. We do all the partitioning
from MacOS.

> Now, when I run
> 
>     disklabel -r /dev/sd1c
> 
> the output tells me the correct disk type: 'zip100' and the info I wrote
> to the Zip disk.  However,
> 
>     disklabel /dev/sd1c
> 
> tells me that the in-core kernel copy of the disklabel is still set to
> using the fictitious geometry.
> 
> The man page says that using the switches '-w -r' is supposed to update
> the in-core kernel stuff as well as writing to the disk.
> 
> What went wrong?

Weird. I don't understand why disklabel -r should work for us.

The best thing to do is to just partition the disk with a MacOS
partitioner.

Take care,

Bill