Mounting iomega zip drive

Luke luked at pobox.com
Tue Feb 22 18:42:35 GMT 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, E. J. Cerejo wrote:

> I use to be able to mount my paralell zip drive with
> the following command under Fbsd 4.x:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip
>
> now I'm running 5.3 I can't, what changed?
>
> I noticed that there is only da0 in my /dev directory,
> I have this in my kernel:
>
> # SCSI peripherals
> device		scbus		# SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
> #device		ch		# SCSI media changers
> device		da		# Direct Access (disks)
> #device		sa		# Sequential Access (tape etc)
> device  	atapicam    		# emulate ATAPI devices as SCSI
> ditto via CAM
> device		cd		# CD
> device		pass		# Passthrough device (direct SCSI
> access)
> #device		ses		# SCSI Environmental Services (and
> SAF-TE)
>
> do I need anything else?

I've got a parellel port zip drive running on a 5.3 system at home.  From 
memory, I think what you need is:
device vpo



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