Subject: Re: Running from Jaz disks?
To: Derrick Hutchinson <derrick.hutchinson@reuters.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/09/1998 10:41:59
Derrick Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded MacBSD 1.3 and started to install on a Performa 600 with
> an Iomega Jaz 1.0 GB disk drive, but ran into troubles using installer 1.1g
> which I downloaded from the same distribution tree.  The error I'm getting
> is when I try to make the devices:
> 
> mode = 0104210, inum = 15490. fs = /
> ialloc: dup alloc
> 
> I used the default values when formatting the partitions with mkfs 1.45 on
> the Jaz cartridge and suppose a few of them may need to be changed.  Does
> anyone have the proper values I should use?  I remember seeing a note from
> Larry Kollar mentioning he was working on a Jaz FAQ, but have not seen a
> new posting for the URL as yet.

You could take a look at the Zip drive howtos on Puma, the numbers might
be similar:

http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/howto/

and

ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/docs/notes/

I hope this helps some.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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