Answering my own question Re: Iomega REV drive, FreeBSD 4.11
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Sun Jul 24 16:22:02 GMT 2005
I'm answering my own question on the mailing list, just to get what I found
into the archives in case anyone else has this question.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:33:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.11. I last updated from STABLE in January:
>
> FreeBSD bogodyn.org 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sat Jan 22 13:10:32 MST 2005 russo at bogodyn.org:/users2/obj/usr/src/sys/BOGODYN i386
>
> I just purchased an external SCSI Iomga REV 35MB removable medium drive.
>
[...]
> When I attach the device and camcontrol rescan all, I get this in the
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Jul 21 19:22:52 bogodyn /kernel: cd1: <Iomega RRD 84.B> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-4
> device
[...]
> That is, the drive is detected, but as a removable CDROM,
This is not peculiar to BSD. Low-level SCSI utilities in the SCSI controller
at boot time also fail to recognize this thing as a disk drive, and even
on Windows it shows up as a CD-ROM. The only way to write data to it is to
use a windows-only driver. And since it doesn't use an ISO-9660 file system,
the only way to read data off of it is with a windows-only driver, too. So
the thing is a paperweight unless one is using Windows. One can use
the windows explorer to copy files into it, and one could use it to back up
files if they're on a BSD machine shared by Samba. Useless for system recovery,
but perhaps barely functional as a data backup.
Live and learn.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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