Thanks to: Bruce Ferjulian,
Richard Abraham,
Andrew Sheaff,
and Todd Featherston,
I recieved two applications, two disktab entries, and a set of
instructions for making the Jaz drive work. I am certain that with all
this help I will have no problem - text of all replies follows :
____________________________________________________________________
From: Bruce Ferjulian <Ferjulian_Bruce_at_emc.com>
I have begun to use the "Jazz 1GB" drive
on some Digital Unix systems. I have provided a "Zip" file which should
prove of some use if you need to label the disks. The task can waste
a lot of time because DEC does not handle other disks cleanly. Good
luck.
~b~
From: Richard Abraham <abrahad_at_gov.on.ca>
Randy:
With the help of posts to this mailing list, (particularly Andy Sheaff)
I have managed to develop a utility which will allow an Alpha to mount a
JAZ drive as a UFS. I use this utility under Digital Unix Version 4 but
can't see any reason why it wouldn't work under Version 3.2g.
I have attached a zip file containing three files.
format_rd - A shell script
format_rd.exe - An executable generated from C-code
jaz_label.dat - A binary label for a jaz drive
By simply unzipping the 3 files into the same directory and running the
commands:
# su
# ./format_rd -w jaz
The first jaz drive on your system should be labelled and a UFS created
on its C-partition.
Good Luck.
Richard Abraham
From: Andrew Sheaff <sheaff_at_eece.maine.edu>
Randy,
I have a jaz drive on my 3000/500. The original disk that comes with the
drive is software write protected. Use scu's format to remove the write
protection and all of the data on it of course. I wrote a program to stuff
an initial disklabel on a zip drive but it also works for the Jaz drive.
You will need to modify the disklabel after it is written. Here is my
disklabel:
# /dev/rrz14a:
type: SCSI
disk: jaz 1GB
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 130
tracks/cylinder: 5
sectors/cylinder: 650
cylinders: 3217
sectors/unit: 2091050
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 2091050 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - 3216)
b: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
c: 2091050 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 3216)
d: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
e: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
f: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
g: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
h: 0 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
You can find the disklabeler at
ftp://ftp.eece.maine.edu/pub/src/alpha/util/ZIP_disklabel_1.0.tar.gz. Just
follow the instructions in it and once the label is physically written you
can edit it (disklabel -re ), delete all the text and paste in the above
one (in this message).
Andy.
From: William Featherston <wtfxston_at_netcom.com>
I have two JAZ drives attached to an Alpha 300Mhz
running 3.2D. Here are the DISKTAB entries that
I am using. Hope it helps.
Todd Fx
jaz-multi|IOMEGA Jaz 1GB drive:\
:ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:ns#3217:nt#1:nc#650:\
:oa#0:pa#205888:ba#8192:fa#1024: \
:ob#205888:pb#205888:bb#8192:fb#1024: \
:oc#0:pc#2091050:bc#8192:fc#1024: \
:od#411776:pd#1679274:bd#8192:fd#1024:
jaz-single|IOMEGA Jaz 1GB drive:\
:ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:ns#3217:nt#1:nc#650:\
:oa#0:pa#2091050:ba#8192:fa#1024: \
:oc#0:pc#2091050:bc#8192:fc#1024:
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 21:37:06 NZST