On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:08 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mike Adolf wrote: > > [REMOVED earlier text] > > > >>I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should > >>not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel? > >> > >>"Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100" > >> > >>This would be /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdd. So this would be something like > >>"/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0". I am still figuring out the naming > >>conventions - I only have 1 device/cable on this machine, so I am > >>guessing at the second device. In any case, you may want to check > >>/var/log/dmesg to see wnat Linux is calling the device. It should list > >>everything detected on the IDE bus, even if it doesn't know how to > >>handle it. The names are directly from the device. Also, what does > >>"ls /dev/hd*" show? Do you have a /dev/hdb? I wish I had an IDE ZIP > >>drive here so I could check on it myself. > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > Here some IDE stuff from dmesg > > > > ------------------------------------- > > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > > idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 > > PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > > hda: Maxtor 51536H2, ATA DISK drive > > hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive > > Using anticipatory io scheduler > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > > Probing IDE interface ide1... > > hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > ls /dev/h* > > /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb6 /dev/hdc > > /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb7 > > > > I guess I need an hdd, which is what I used in 9.2, but it was their at > > 9.2 installation. > > > > How should I create hdd, and what should my fstab entry be? I am using > > fat32 format on the disk. Should I format it to something else? > > > > Mike > > Hi Mike, > Sorry to take so long to get back to you. Too much going on here... > Changing the format of the ZIP drive isn't going to help. Also, creatign > /dev/hdd, and /dev/hdd4 probably isn't going to help ether. The problem > is that the ZIP drive isn't being seen as a harddrive, but as a IDE > floppy drive. You ca try running "modprobe ide-floppy". I am not sure if > the driver will handle it properly, or not. It should at least get you > an entry in the /sys/bus/ide tree. Try it, and see what gets put into > /var/log/messages when you do - it should help. > If I get a chance, I'll see what I can find on google about this, as I > am sure you are not the first person to have an IDE ZIP drive under > udev. When we get it working, you are going to have to write it up for > the twiki web site... > > Mikkel
After I did as you suggested, messages contained: ------------ Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm ------------- Also if I run configure tool from harddrake it lists: Misc New devfs device: â/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part4 Old device file: â/dev/hdd4 Model: âZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Disk controller: --------------------- Mike
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