I bought a 2 GB Jaz drive recently along with 3 2 Gig disks, and I hooked it up to my slab. I edited the disktab (I used the 2 GB one on the disktab site that's floating around somewhere), and the system, while seeing the drive, refuses to see any disk I put in, whether I put it in before or after startup. It doesn't mount them and it doesn't even put them in /dev. One final note, these are PC-formatted disks.
Thanks,
Eric
Depending on the version of the OS you're running, you may/may not need to edit the disktab. Also, some versions of the OS will not see the Jaz drives (earlier versions).
FYI: I use a Jaz drive pretty regularly with OpenStep, but I never did get it working with anything less than 3.3 (i.e. 2.1, 2.0 etc).
Quote from: "gtnicol"Depending on the version of the OS you're running, you may/may not need to edit the disktab. Also, some versions of the OS will not see the Jaz drives (earlier versions).
FYI: I use a Jaz drive pretty regularly with OpenStep, but I never did get it working with anything less than 3.3 (i.e. 2.1, 2.0 etc).
Well, I'm using 4.2, and whenever I try to do something with the drive (which is at /dev/sd1(a-f)), an alert panel pops up saying something along the lines of "Please insert a disk into external drive 1." I have the SCSI chain terminated through an unused CD-ROM drive at the end of the chain (is this a bad idea). I'm beginning to think I may have a faulty Jaz drive. Although it may just be the fact I'm using PC disks.
Thanks,
Eric
The PC disks should mount fine. When I put a DOS formatted disk into my machine it mounts automatically... shows up with a DOS icon.
When the drive has a disk in it during boot, this message is repeated ~7-8 times no matter whether I have a disktab or not:
sd2 (5,0): ERROR op: 0x1b sd_state: 4 scsi status: 0x8
A quick Google seems to show that scsi status 0x8 has something to do with the mode sense command.
Eric
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I tried switching the CD-ROM and Jaz SCSI IDs today also, so while the Jaz drive was sd1/external drive 1 earlier, it is now sd2/external drive 2.
In the vain hope that posting another error message may help, when I try to initialize the disk with /usr/etc/disk, it always puts out a popup saying "Please insert disk into external drive 2" with a "Cancel" button, and after pressing cancel, the terminal spits out:
/dev/rsd2a: No such device or address
I switched the ID to 6 today, no dice. I have also tried using sdform and newfs, and neither recognizes the disk and they both put out the same popup as /usr/etc/disk.
Eric
QuoteDepending on the version of the OS you're running, you may/may not need to edit the disktab. Also, some versions of the OS will not see the Jaz drives (earlier versions).
I have restored a dump of an earlier NEXT release (1.0) on a 1Gb JAZ drive (a thanks to the community :) ). I've firstly initialed the JAZ on a NS 3.3 system with the disktab found on
http://www.deadstart.net/NeXT/disktab/ and then restored the dump.
The NEXT 1.0 files are on the JAZ cartdridge but is there any chance that the JAZ will be bootable on 68030 Cube?