[1783] in Release_7.7_team
agenda item (zip drives again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Mon May 10 17:49:11 1999
Message-Id: <199905102148.RAA04825@whirlwind>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:48:59 EDT
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
It's a long and poorly-timed story, but it seems that Solaris 2.6 does
support dos-formatted zip disks (using mount_pcfs and eschewing vold);
I spoke to Mike a bit about this and he agreed release-team should
decide whether to try and get it working for 8.3, or stay with mtools
for the time being on the Suns. Notes on the two options below.
--Abby
Continue to use mtools
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Original plan was to upgrade to the current mtools version this summer
and to set it up to use vold rather than raw scsi access which
required setuid installation. Basic commands test ok after some minor
changes like making "mzip -e" use "eject zip"; early worries about
a vold death condition were dispelled.
As far as the release, to get mtools working with vold would require
uncommenting the "use rmsci" line in /etc/vold.conf.
Start using native tools
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The incantation that I finally got to work is:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t5d0s2:1 /zip
(This is without vold controlling the zip drive, as that blocks things
like eject and mount from using /dev/dsk/c0t5d0s2.)
Obvious question would be how to set it up so that users wouldn't have
to mount and umount manually; then there are things like making it
easy to format. Here's some stuff from the net:
- format.dat entries for zip drives:
http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/2019.html
- ziptool utility to format, add fs, manage protection modes:
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/ziptool.html
(needs root privileges)
- using automount with zip disks:
http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sun/tips/zip-solaris.html
(I tried playing with timeout; seems to take at least 1 minute
idle before it unmounts and responds to the eject button)
- Sun doc. (couldn't find any, maybe they'll start with solaris 7 ;)
