Special thanks to David Wiseman who provided the correct answer (and
did so rather quickly!). Here is my format.dat entry, followed by
David Wiseman's response:
disk_type="Jaz 2GB"\
:ctlr=SCSI\
:ncyl=1909:acyl=2:pcyl=1911:nhead=64\
:nsect=32:rpm=3600:bpt=16384
partition = "Jaz 2GB"\
:disk="Jaz 2GB":ctlr=SCSI\
:2=0, 3909632
According to David Wiseman:
> Hi, here's what we finally convinced Iomega technical support to provide us
> with:
>
> disk_type = "Iomega Jaz 2Gb" \
> : ctlr = SCSI \
> : ncyl = 1909 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1911 : nhead = 64 : nsect = 32 \
> : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 16384
>
> partition = "Iomega Jaz 2Gb" \
> : disk = "Iomega Jaz 2Gb" : ctlr = "SCSI" \
> : 2 = 0, 3909632
>
> They work just fine. However, if you are going to want to use your Jaz as a
> removable device under 2.5.1, then you are also going to have to acquire the
> rmscsi library for vold. (This apparently comes as part of 2.6 but is an
> unsupported addon for 2.5.1.)
>
> Hopefully someone else will be able to tell you how to find this; I've managed
> to lose my copy of the sources. Sigh; too many disks.
>
> One point: as an unsupported addon, it isn't very stable. Do not leave the
> Jaz disk in the drive when you are not going to be using it; eject it. We've
> had a couple of their filesystems go weird on us when we do this. Fortunately,
> an fsck fixes them but...
>
> --
> magi David Wiseman, Network Manager e-mail: magi@csd.uwo.ca
> Department of Computer Science http: www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi
> The University of Western Ontario fax: +1 519 661 3515
> London Ontario Canada N6A 5B7 voice: +1 519 679 2111 x6879
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?
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