by All,
I am running freebsd 3.1-RELEASE. I have recompiled my kernel with
the devices I need, including "controller scbus0" "device da0" and
"controller vpo0 at ppbus?". When I boot, everything works fine, and
my dmesg shows the Iomega vpo0 on the ppbus 0 in nibble mode. The
drive even whirrs a little when I boot.
However, I am totally stumped on how to access the device. I assumed
I would just do something akin to "mount -t msdos /dev/vpo0 /mnt"
or perhaps just "mount /dev/vpo0 /mnt" but there is no /dev/vpo0,
and the MAKEDEV has no mention of it, and the man pages on vpo0
and the ppbus didn't give any examples. I have also never had freebsd
installed on any machine with scsi (although I'm not sure if the
parallel to scsi interface for the zip would behave like a scsi
device or not). Therefore, if there is some scheme involving scsi
or parallel port mounting/referencing, then it is new to me.
Can anyone give me pointers? I have a desire to read and write to/from
the zip in both the freebsd 165 filesystem and the fat32/win98/msdos-style
file system style.
At the bottom, I include my kernel configuration file, in case it matters.
Tips and pointers to readmes and resources appreciated. Outright
answers also appreciated.
Thanks,
Lewis
machine "i386"
cpu "I386_CPU"
cpu "I486_CPU"
cpu "I586_CPU"
cpu "I686_CPU"
ident VALKYRIE
maxusers 100
config kernel root on wd0
options MAXMEM=131072
options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation
options INET #InterNETworking
options SYSVSHM
options SYSVMSG
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options MFS #Memory Filesystem
options MFS_ROOT #MFS usable as root device, "MFS" req'ed
options NFS #Network Filesystem
options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, "NFS" req'ed
options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
options "CD9660" #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options "CD9660_ROOT" #CD-ROM usable as root. "CD9660" req'ed
options PROCFS #Process filesystem
options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
options FAILSAFE #Be conservative
options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM
options XSERVER # support for X server
controller isa0
controller eisa0
controller pci0
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
options "CMD640" # work around CMD640 chip deficiency
controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14
disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0
disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1
controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15
disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0
disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1
device acd0 #IDE CD-ROM
device wfd0 #IDE Floppy (e.g. LS-120)
controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty
device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1
device psm0 at isa? tty irq 12
device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts
pseudo-device splash
device sc0 at isa? tty
device npx0 at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13
device apm0 at isa? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management
device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4
device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3
device sio2 at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5
device sio3 at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9
controller scbus0
device da0
device ppc0 at isa? port? net irq 7
controller ppbus0
device nlpt0 at ppbus?
device plip0 at ppbus?
device ppi0 at ppbus?
controller vpo0 at ppbus?
device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0
device fxp0
pseudo-device loop
pseudo-device ether
pseudo-device sl 1
pseudo-device ppp 1
pseudo-device tun 1
pseudo-device pty 16
pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's
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