IOMEGA Zip drive attached to ATA/2 (RAID controller capable of ATA/133) access is unsuable because of READ_BIG and WRITE_BIG problems: Symptoms: UFS: can use fdisk to modify partition table can use disklabel to write new disklabel cannot use newfs to create filesystem # newfs afd0c Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 97. Warning: 32 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/afd0c: 196576 sectors in 48 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 96.0MB in 1 cyl groups (97 c/g, 194.00MB/g, 12288 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32 read error: 64 newfs: rdfs: Input/output error # dmesg | tail -2 afd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting ata2: resetting devices .. done FAT32 cannot mount filesystem device access: # dd if=/dev/rafd0 of=fred bs=1024k count=2 dd: /dev/rafd0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 30.117478 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dmesg | tail ... afd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting ata2: resetting devices .. done # dd if=/dev/afd0 of=fred bs=1024k count=2 dd: /dev/afd0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 30.114773 secs (0 bytes/sec) # dmesg | tail -2 afd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting ata2: resetting devices .. done kernel messages: afd0: READ_BIG command timeout - resetting ata2: resetting devices .. done Hardware info: # atacontrol mode ata2 Master = PIO0 Slave = ??? # atacontrol cap ata2 0 ATA channel 2, Master, device afd0: ATA/ATAPI revision 0 device model IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI serial number firmware revision 14.A cylinders 0 heads 0 sectors/track 0 lba supported lba48 not supported dma notsupported overlap not supported Feature Support Enable Value Vendor write cache no no read ahead no no dma queued no no 0/00 SMART no no microcode download no no security no no power management no no advanced power management no no 0/00 automatic acoustic management no no 0/00 0/00 # atacontrol info ata2 Master: afd0 <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/14.A> ATA/ATAPI rev 0 Slave: no device present Fix: unknown How-To-Repeat: comnnect iomega 100MB ZIP to ATA-2 (onboard raid controller on KT266 motherboard) attempt to mount / read zip disk
State Changed From-To: open->closed Sounds like HW trouble to me. You should try -current and see if that handles the situation better.