Well, "unable to read partition table" sounds pretty bad. But for what it's worth, zip disks are generally formatted as fat on partition 4 (/dev/?da4).
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ nbs said: > I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on, and thought I'd > poke around and see what I had. > > Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive), I was > faced with the following: > > # insmod ppa > Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/ppa.o > ppa: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.2.x) > ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit > ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use SPP > ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using SPP > scsi2 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface > scsi : 2 hosts. > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda : READ > CAPACITY failed. > sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 > sda : extended sense code = 6 > sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. > sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected > unable to read partition table > > > The ppa module remains loaded, but whenever I try to mount a disk, it fails too: > > $ mount /mnt/zip [ in fstab, it's /dev/sda1 as ext2 fs ] sda : READ > CAPACITY failed. > sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 > sda : extended sense code = 6 > sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. > sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected > unable to read partition table > mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only sda : READ > CAPACITY failed. > sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 > sda : extended sense code = 6 > sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. > sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected > unable to read partition table > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > > I tried mounting them as DOS disks, too (/dev/sda4 as vfat fs), > and I was sure that the "lp" kernel module was disabled before > I tried doing the "insmod ppa". > > > Could it be that my dusty old Iomega drive has finally kicked the > bit bucket? > > Or perhaps all four of the disks I'm trying to read are dead!? > (I know one of them worked fairly recently... I believe it was the disk I tested the > Zip drive on when I put this P133 system back together) > > FYI I'm running Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.18pre21, which came with it. I didn't build > the kernel on this box. Looking at the kern. config file "/boot/config-2.2.18pre21", > I'm not sure there's any point in doing so: > > ... > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y > ... > CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m > ... > CONFIG_PRINTER=m > ... > > Any ideas? Or should I go hunt down a new drive? > > > -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech