On Wednesday 05 March 2003 01:51 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 02:32, Alan wrote: > > I upgraded a system from 8.0 to 9.0. > > > > Now I cannot find the Zip disk device. My old /dev/zip symlink has been > > blown away and I cannot find the scsi->ide device it is supposed to be. > > Some thoughts ... > > Is the ide-scsi module being loaded at boot time (places to look: output > of lsmod and dmesg, proper "append=" line(s) in /etc/lilo.conf and/or > "kernel" line(s) in /boot/grub/menu.lst)? > > If not, add in the appropriate entry in whichever of the above two files > pertains to your bootloader, run /sbin/lilo (if it's lilo that you use), > and reboot. If your Zip is connected as hdc, let's say, you'll want: > > /etc/lilo.conf: > > append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" > > /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > kernel blahblahblahblahblahblah devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi > > (Care to guess which loader I've used more frequently? <G>) > > If the above is in order, is the drive being properly detected (output > of "cdrecord -scanbus" should be useful here)? > > If all that checks out, then your symlink target is probably something > like /dev/sda4 or /dev/sdb4 (which would in itself be a symlink to one > of those cryptic /dev/scsi/blah/blah/blah/blah/part4 type of entries). > > This is off the top of my head, I'm afraid, as I have no scsi-emulated > devices here on the 9.0 box to use as a reference ... :( > > HTH! Some more thoughts: I had real problems with getting my ZIP internal 100 to work in 9.0, here's what finally fixed it for me. Changed the internal cables to put the zip as primary on the second channel IDE, from that point on the ZIP has worked as advertized. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA
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