Two replies within 25 minutes (!) of sending out the following question:
> Anyone out there got an /etc/disktab entry for an iomega ZIP drive (100MB)?
1) From: alan <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
If the drive is well behaved, Digital UNIX can get the
geometry directly from the drive (with the disklabel
command). The driver will provide a default partition
table, though for a such a small drive, the algorithm
may get a bit confused.
2) From: Stephen Carpenter <sac_at_uvo.dec.com>
Hi John,
with my ZIP drive I use:
zip100|IOMEGA ZIP Drive:\
:ty=removable:dt=SCSI:ns#64:nt#2:nc#1536:\
:oa#0:pa#180224:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:ob#180224:pb#16284:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
:oc#0:pc#196608:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
:od#0:pd#0:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
:oe#0:pe#0:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:of#0:pf#0:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:og#0:pg#0:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
:oh#0:ph#0:bh#8192:fh#1024:
Thanks to Alan and Stephen for their help.
While waiting for any replies to be sent I tried using disklabel to get
the necessary info from the drive as suggested in (1) but couldn't get it to
work so I hacked about in /etc/disktab and tried the following entry,
after reading in the Linux "ZIP-drive mini-HOWTO" that the "...disks hold
96 cylinders of 2048 sectors each holding 512 bytes."
# iomega ZIP drive: 100 Mbyte.
#
zip|ZIP|iomega ZIP 100MB removable disk:\
:ty=removable:dt=SCSI:ns#2048:nt#1:nc#96:\
:oa#0:pa#196608:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:oc#0:pc#196608:bc#8192:fc#1024:
Using this entry I did:
# disklabel -rw rz6 zip
# newfs /dev/rrz6c
# mount /dev/rz6c /zip
and everything seems to be working fine.
John.
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