Does FreeBSD support Zip® drives?
FreeBSD supports SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) Zip drives out of the box. SCSI ZIP drives can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if your SCSI host adapter’s BIOS supports it you can even boot from it. It is not clear which host adapters support booting from targets other than 0 or 1, so you will have to consult your adapter’s documentation if you would like to use this feature. FreeBSD also supports Parallel Port Zip Drives. Check that your kernel contains the scbus0, da0, ppbus0, and vp0 drivers (the GENERIC kernel contains everything except vp0). With all these drivers present, the Parallel Port drive should be available as /dev/da0s4. Disks can be mounted using mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt OR (for DOS disks) mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s4 /mnt as appropriate. Also check out the FAQ on removable drives later in this chapter, and the note on “formatting”in the Administration chapter.
FreeBSD supports SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) Zip drives out of the box, of course. SCSI ZIP drives can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if your SCSI host adapter’s BIOS supports it you can even boot from it. It is not clear which host adapters support booting from targets other than 0 or 1, so you will have to consult your adapter’s documentation if you would like to use this feature. FreeBSD also supports Parallel Port Zip Drives. Check that your kernel contains the scbus0, da0, ppbus0, and vp0 drivers (the GENERIC kernel contains everything except vp0). With all these drivers present, the Parallel Port drive should be available as /dev/da0s4. Disks can be mounted using mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt OR (for dos disks) mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt as appropriate. Also check out the FAQ on removable drives later in this chapter, and the note on “formatting”in the Administration chapter.
FreeBSD supports SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) Zip drives out of the box. SCSI ZIP drives can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if your SCSI host adapter’s BIOS supports it you can even boot from it. It is not clear which host adapters support booting from targets other than 0 or 1, so you will have to consult your adapter’s documentation if you would like to use this feature. FreeBSD also supports Parallel Port Zip Drives. Check that your kernel contains the scbus0, da0, ppbus0, and vp0 drivers (the GENERIC kernel contains everything except vp0). With all these drivers present, the Parallel Port drive should be available as /dev/da0s4. Disks can be mounted using mount /dev/da0s4 /mnt OR (for DOS disks) mount_msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt as appropriate. Also check out the FAQ on removable drives later in this chapter, and the note on “formatting”in the Administration chapter.
