On 26 Nov, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>> trying to mount the zip-drive gives:
>> msdos: /dev/afd0s4: Invalid argument
>
> This has appeared before IIRC, I've no idea why this doesn't work,
> but I can rig up my ZIP drive, but I dont have DOS nor WINDOWS,
> do it fail also if the disk is formatted under FreeBSD ??
I didn´t tried to reproduce this recently, but you could try to format
the ZIP-disc with mtools:
mformat -t 96 -h 64 -s 32 -H 32 z:
Fritz: could you post the output of "minfo z:" (ata-controller)? Here´s
the one with wd (perhaps a diff between them gives someone a hint):
---snip---
(101) netchild@ttyp2 > minfo z:
device information:
===================
filename="/dev/rwfd0s4"
sectors per track: 32
heads: 64
cylinders: 96
mformat command line: mformat -t 96 -h 64 -s 32 -H 32 z:
bootsector information
======================
banner:"(?6;1IHC"
sector size: 512 bytes
cluster size: 4 sectors
reserved (boot) sectors: 1
fats: 2
max available root directory slots: 512
small size: 0 sectors
media descriptor byte: 0xf8
sectors per fat: 192
sectors per track: 32
heads: 64
hidden sectors: 32
big size: 196576 sectors
physical drive id: 0x80
reserved=0x0
dos4=0x29
serial number: 39BC1102
disk label="ZIP-100 "
disk type="FAT16 "
---snip---
And here the boot-message:
---snip---
wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/23.D>, removable, intr, iordis
wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk)
wfd0: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit set
---snip---
Søren, I assume the ata-controller knows about the last line, right?
Bye,
Alexander.
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