There is an article about zips and LS-120's on mandrakeforum.com. Give
it a look.
On Monday 20 November 2000 09:38, you wrote:
> > Dear Skidley,
>
> My problem is in the LS-120, while I think your instructions are in
> deleting the links to the CDROM.
>
> I've included copies of lilo.conf and fstab.... My EIDE Zip drive is
> working properly.....
>
> Joseph
>
> skidley wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote:
> > > Dear Friends,
> > >
> > > LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not
> > > since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com,
> > > and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working?
> > >
> > > My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard
> > > Pri Master: EIDE HDD
> > > Pri Slave: Zip drive EIDE
> > > Sec Master: LS-120 EIDE
> > > Sec Slave : CD-RW EIDE
> > >
> > > Many thanks to whoever knows how - I've installed LM 7.2 at least
> > > 10 times to try and get around the problem to no avail.
> >
> > Maybe this option is passed to the kernel by
> > lilo or grub(whatever you use): append=" hdc=ide-scsi" Check your
> > lilo.conf. also do a ls -l /dev/cd* and see what you get. If
> > /dev/cdrom is using scsi emulation you will get something like
> > /dev/cdrom -> scd0 (cdrom being a symlink to the secondary master
> > scsi device). I have both my IDE drives, my cdrom and burner scsi
> > emulated and they work quite well and it's better for burning on
> > the fly i'm told and mine burns on the fly flawlessly. One solution
> > if your Cdrom is scsi emulated (/dev/cdrom -> scd0) is to run
> > modprobe ide-scsi. If ya don't want the drive to be scsi emulated
> > but it is(hence /dev/cdrom -> scd0) do the following as root: cd
> > /dev, then rm -f cdrom, then ln -s hdc cdrom(makes cdrom a symlink
> > to hdc(secondary master ide). then make any necessary changes to
> > /etc/fstab= make sure ya have /mnt/cdrom and its /dev/cdrom and get
> > rid of the append=" hdc=ide-scsi"line in /etc/lilo.conf
> > or/boot/grub/menu.lst. That should cover what you need to do.
> >
> > --
> > Chad Y.
> > Registered Linux User #195191
> > Registered Linux Box #86749
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