On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 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
* I have one disk I formatted FAT32 on windows xp. * I booted 10.1 with disk in and wrote a text file to it. OK * I rebooted 10.1 with disk out and inserted after boot, the file was present and readable * I rebooted xp, the file was there but cr/lf screwed up. * I rebooted 10.1 with disk in, file was there. * I manually ejected it and inserted a second disk containing IOMEGA written files (a new factory formatted disk) * When I open the zip, the window still showed the file from disk 1, and I could read it?? * I su-ed to root, umount /mnt/zip and mount /mnt/zip with IOMEGA disk still in drive. Now all files on disk were visible. Mike
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