I have an atapi 250mb ZIP drive and I had the exact same difficulties. It seems to recognise it if I look in dmesg but no matter what I tried (and I asked around a lot too) the only thing that worked for me was changing the line 'devfs=mount' to 'devfs=nomount' in lilo.conf. Now I can use the drive without any hassles at all. I have absolutely no idea what problems may be caused by doing this but the only symptom I have seen is that my scanner icon doesnt appear automagically on the desktop when I switch it on.
Colin Rose If this is a bad idea someone is sure to pipe in and let us both know HTH On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:38, Robert Grasso wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering what is happening. I bought a brand-new P4/1.8 GHz/256 MB RAM > configuration, but maybe with not enough care ? It was without the Iomega Zip > which is an old device. I first installed the OS, configured and tested it; > when everything worked (network, sound ...) then I installed the Iomega drive > in the box and rebooted. And the Zip was not detected. I am listing below : > the symptoms, several tests that I performed, and finally my configuration. > > 0 - the Iomega Zip is internal, 100 MB capacity > > 1 - symptoms > * harddrake2 does not see the new device > * the device is seen by the kernel : in syslog, I get > hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > dmesg shows hdc too > > 2 - tests > - the drive itself works ! it was in an old 486 box running RedHat 7.1 : I > just mounted the drive back in the 486 and started it : it works, I can mount > it and read files on the zip. > - my previous box was a P-200 with Mandrake 8.2 and kernel 2.4.18, a SCSI hard > disk and another internal 100 MB IDE Iomega Zip : I learned there the > ide-scsi configuration. On this P-200 both Iomega Zip work currently, with > the ide-scsi driver. > > - I tried to configure the device by hand, first with the IDE driver, then > with the ide-scsi driver: > * IDE : declare ide-floppy in /etc/modules, and the corresponding line in > /etc/fstab > * SCSI, as IDE did not work : declare module ide-scsi in /etc/modules, add > "hdc=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf, and add "/dev/sda /mnt/zip ..." in > /etc/fstab. > > For both previous points : it's interesting : the kernel goes far enough : for > sda for example : > sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB > > well, I don't know if I should bother about the "1GB". Anyhow, the drive is > accessed - but when I want to mount it, I get (I did not write it down > accurately) "wrong fs type, wrong option, bad superblock" in each case, IDE > or SCSI. > > 3 - Configuration > - the motherboard is from DFI (is this the error ?) www.dfi.com, model NB70-BC > or NB71-BC, I cannot guess which of both it is : for NB70-BC, the Intel > chipset is 845D, for the other one it's 845E. But Google shows noone using > such motherboard in a Linux configuration :-( > - the IDE controller, as returned by lspci, is > Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05) > - there are two IDE connectors, I have the hard drive and a DVD on the first > one, the Iomega is alone on the second one, the jumper on Master position. > - in the BIOS, the PIO/DMA selection is set to Auto > - in the motherboard booklet documentation, they say: > "PCI Bus Master Controller > * Two PCI IDE interfaces > * Supports ATA/33, ATA/66 and ATA/100 hard drives > * PIO Mode 4 Enhanced IDE (data transfer rate up to 14 MB/sec) > * Bus mastering reduces CPU utilisation during disk transfer > * Supports ATAPI CD-ROM, LS-120 and ZIP" > > - the DVD is a Pioneer DVD-117 : not really present in the supported hardware > list, but it works : one can notice that the installation went very smoothly, > but when I logged in the first time, I did not see the drive any more ! I > looked around, finally installed myself the driver "ide-cd" in /etc/modules, > then I was able to mount and read CDs. But if I want to do a very large job : > such as query all the rpms of an installation CD, I get plenty of errors if > supermount is enabled; if it's disabled, there are almost no errors - but I > am not sure that there are really no errors at all. > > If somebody has an idea, it would be nice ! > > Best regards > > -- > Robert Grasso > @home > --- > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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