Now that I've taken the morning to clean up my system WRT to ide-scsi and my
CD-ROM and CD-RW, I've decided to try to tackle the problem of why I can't
get access to my IDE-ZIP drive with my normal kernel.
I managed to configure and build a kernel from which I CAN access my ZIP
drive, but when I use it, my netwrok card becomes inaccessible. I've tried to
compare the two configurations to see what's wrong, but the only diffs I find
are as follows:
Can access ZIP Can't access ZIP
CONFIG_PARIDE=m not set
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y not set
CONFIG_DEV_IDECD=y =m
CONFIG_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y =m
The normal kernel (the one that can't seem to talk to my ZIP drive) seems to
find it based on this (from dmesg):
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 53073H4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdd: CD-950E/TKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
But when the ide-scsi module gets loaded, it seems to find the ZIP drive and
assign it a scsi ID (again, from dmesg):
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 03.H
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: E-IDE Model: CD-950E/TKU Rev: A40
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attempts to mount /dev/hdc4 fail as follows:
# mount -tvfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc4,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
I get similar errors with and without loading the ide-floppy module.
/dev/sr1 was created by me as a symlink to /dev/scd1, which seems to have
been automagically created and works fine.
Do I need to create a device file for the ZIP drive? If so, how do I go about
determining the major/minor number that it should have?
Thanks,
Tim
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