That was easy.
Alan <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com> replied back almost right away with:
Use the hardware manager (hwmgr) to see if the appropriate
drive subsystem noticed it. The V5 SPD claims to support
the ZIP 100 drive as a floppy. Also, if you're expecting
it to show up as a "dsk" device, it see if you have an
extra "floppy"...
So I looked harder. Sure enough, there was an extra floppy!
It was /dev/disk/floppy1c
I was able to disklabel -wr it and it got a good label from the Zip disk
itself.
I then put on a UFS file system:
: %; sudo newfs /dev/rdisk/floppy1c
/dev/rdisk/floppy1c: 196608 sectors in 96 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32
sectors
96.0MB in 6 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.00MB/g, 3840 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 32832, 65632, 98432, 131232, 164032,
And finally mounted it on /zip.
Now I'll see about mounting and manipulating MSDOS formatted Zips.
thanks,
Andy Diller
in article list.unix.alpha-osf-managers/B49A95D3.18F0%macdaddy_at_mac.com,
Andrew Diller at macdaddy_at_mac.com wrote on 2000/01/06 6:56 PM:
> hello:
>
> I've searched the archives about Zip disks, and found useful info regarding
> the use of SCSI zip drives and Tru64, but I've got a new XP1000 which has an
> IDE Zip drive.
>
> I can see the Zip drive in the SRM- its called dqa1.
>
> When I boot into Tru64 5.0, there is no device for it in /dev/disk/
>
> Has anyone been successful working with one of these in 5.0 with one of the
> IDE Alphas? (XP1000 or XP900/DS10)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Diller
Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 00:51:22 NZDT