cannot mount IDE Zip

Rachmat Hidajat rachmat at med.kobe-u.ac.jp
Tue Feb 3 21:02:45 PST 2004


Hi there,
Recently I installed 5.2-RELEASE on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (BIOS A10) with 
internal IDE Zip drive, but seems the drive is not recognized properly:

# dmesg |grep ad
ad0: 4110MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A> [14848/9/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad1: 9729MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2> [19767/16/63] at ata0-slave 
UDMA33
ad3: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
error=4<ABORTED>
ad3: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
error=4<ABORTED>
ad3: 96MB <IOMEGA ZIP 100> [512/12/32] at ata1-slave BIOSPIO
-----------------------------
# fdisk ad3
******* Working on device /dev/ad3 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=512 heads=12 sectors/track=32 (384 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=512 heads=12 sectors/track=32 (384 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB))
     start 32, size 196192 (95 Meg), flag 80 (active)
         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
         end: cyl 510/ head 11/ sector 32
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
------------------------------
# mount /dev/ad3s1 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad3s1 on /mnt: incorrect super block
------------------------------
# mount /dev/ad3s4 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad3s4: No such file or directory
------------------------------
Even pushing the button won't eject the disk.
Is there some incompatibily between BIOS and FreeBSD, since the drive 
works very well in Windows environment?

Rachmat Hidajat



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list