Connecting a USB Zip drive -- whatever am I doing wrong?

epilogue epilogue at allstream.net
Sun Jul 4 20:20:50 PDT 2004


On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:04:06 -0700
Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:28 pm, epilogue wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > for many moons now, i'll occasionally dedicate a dark day to getting
> > my USB Zip drive to work.  i've been through the handbook, faq,
> > relevant man pages, mailing lists and across the colossal
> > googlesphere collecting bits and pieces, none of which seem to get me
> > the desired result.  i'm obviously missing something.
> >
> > i'm writing with the hope that, what i have managed to overlook will
> > be so obvious and straighforward, some kind reader will take 2
> > seconds to point it out, so that i may zip off on my merry way.
> >
> > ### uname -a
> > FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p1 i386
> >
> > ### relevant lines from kernel
> > device          vpo
> > device          scbus
> > device          da
> > device          uhci    # uhci related entries show up in dmesg
> > device		usb
> > device		ugen
> >
> What about
> device      umass       # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da

hello kent,

it's already in there.  sigh.  i just missed it, when i pasted all this
info together.  sorry for the oversight.


> Kent
> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 
> http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> 


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