"G. Eric Morgan" wrote:
>
> I too have the exact same problem with BOTH Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0.
> sda4 is not a valid block device. Here is my dmesg file where the
> parport_pc and ppa is loaded at the end. btw the other SCSI I have is the
> emulation for the CDburner which I have not yet wrestled with...
>
> Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20
> snip....
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
> ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
> ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
> scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda:SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 27010000
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
>
I think if you put a different disk in (during bootup) your "Unable to
read partition etc." might go away.
