>- well as messages from the disk geometry of the ZIP informing me that
>- netbsd will use the ficticious(sp?) geometry.  I will be upgrading the
>
>Hello,
>
>Iomega's SCSI implementation for the ZIP drives is rather screwed. I'm
>seeing this messages at my FreeBSD box as well. I'm not sure for NetBSD,
>but under FreeBSD you can ignore them, the drive just works fine.
>
>ciao
>  lutz
>
>(having installed NetBSD-1.1/mac successfully; now waiting for a 68882 for
>my IIsi :-(

Cool, I'm not the only one who got really frustrated with the ZIP disks.
Anyway, I finally figured out the secret to making a file system with a ZIP
disk using mkfs:


Use "512" as the magic number for any values that weren't automatically
detected and any values that you know are valid that mkfs needs to create a
file system on a ZIP disk (ex. tracks/cylnd = 512, Iomega doesn't tell you
that).

Jon
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