On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike Adolf wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >>Mike Adolf wrote:
> >>>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
> >>
> >>Ok - now we are making progress. If you put "ide-floppy" in
> >>"/etc/modprobe.preload", then you should alway get /dev/hdd4 created on
> >>boot. Now you should be able to create your desktop shortcut. You
> >>should also check to see if a mount point is created for it in /mnt when
> >>you put in a ZIP disk. If it is not automounted, then as a workaround,
> >>you could try doing this:
> >>
> >>mkdir /mnt/ZIP
> >>
> >>edit /etc/fs and add this line: (all one line, even thoug it is wrapped
> >>here!)
> >>
> >>none /mnt/ZIP supermount
> >>dev=/dev/hdd4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> >>
> >>This should automount any ZIP disk on /mnt/ZIP. It will work with both
> >>ext2 and fat formatted disks, as long as they use partition 4. It will
> >>also show up as an icon on the KDE desktop, but it will show always
> >>mounted. That is something I need to figure out how to change...
> >>
> >>Mikkel
> >
> > It now works! After editing modprobe.preload with ide-floppy, I
> > rebooted. When I tried to copy a file to the zip, it failed. I looked in
> > fstab and the system had placed the exact line you listed above. There
> > is no hdd4 in dev, only hdd. So in desperation I changed fstab to
> > /dev/hdd and rebooted with the disk in the drive. During boot, it polled
> > the device (green light). It never did that before. I then opened it and
> > successfully copied a file. Something still seems bogus. I guess I can
> > make a Twiki entry, but I am not sure the solution is necessarily the
> > correct one.
> >
> > Thanks for all you help.
> > Mike
>
> This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the
> partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it.
> Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so
> that the ZIP data partition becomes /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdd4.
>
> Did the disk you used have other files on it? Are you able to access
> files on other ZIP disks? If you boot without a disk in the drive, does
> it detect when you put in a disk? Does it detect when you change the ZIP
> disk?
>
> In any case, I would hold off on the Twiki entry for a while - it sounds
> like a bug report may be in order here. If the entry in /etc/fstab is
> being created for you, but is the wrong one, then that has to be fixed.
> One other small point - you do not have to reboot for changes in
> /etc/fstab to take affect. The file is read as needed. Hotplug adds
> entries "on the fly" when you plug in USB storage devices...
>
> Mikkel
Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that
"4" there. It accesses the entire Zip cart.
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