Re: IDE Zip Drive

["J. Scott Edwards" <sedwards@xmission.com>]

I found that the system thinks the Zip drive is a SCSI drive (sd0) even
though it is an IDE drive in reality.  But I did the mount as you said
(just with sd0i) and it appears to be working just fine now.

Thanks again
  -Scott



On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, J. Scott Edwards wrote:

> Well, as usual I can make anything more complicated.  I tried your
> suggestion but I always get "Device not configured".  Even when I try to
> run disklabel and fdisk on them.  So then I decided to run dmesg to see if
> I could see if it recognized the drive at boot up.  But it just spits out:
> "proc: table is full".  So then I ran sysctl kern.maxproc to see how many
> processes I can have and it is set to 532 and it appears that I have less
> than 100 processes.  So I have no idea what is going on (as usual).  I
> guess I will reboot and see if I can tell what the Zip disk is then.
>
> Thanks
>   -Scott
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Ben Goren wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:52:50AM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > I have  searched around and  looked through the archives,  but I
> > > can't  seem to  find much  info  on using  an IDE  Zip drive  on
> > > OpenBSD.  I found some e-mail from 1998 but that was about it.
> > >
> > > I need to  copy some data off of some  Windoze formatted Zip-100
> > > disks and the only machine I have available right now with a Zip
> > > drive is  my OpenBSD machine.  Can  anyone offer or point  me to
> > > any information on using it with OpenBSD?
> >
> > It  works just  fine. Make sure  the hardware  is properly  set up
> > and  stick in  the disk. OpenBSD  automatically creates  a virtual
> > disklabel  for  disks  with  a  DOS  partition  and  assigns  that
> > partition to slice ``i.'' Thus, if OpenBSD sees your Zip drive as,
> > say,  wd2, all  you  have  to do  is  ``mount  -t msdos  /dev/wd2i
> > /mnt.'' Might want  to throw an ``-o  ro'' in there, too,  just to
> > protect against slips of the finger.
> >
> > If I remember right, eject (1) even does what you'd expect....
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > b&
> >
> > --
> > Ben Goren
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> >  http://www.trumpetpower.com/
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