If you figure out how to mount the zip, please let me know as I have posted a similar question here, with no answers. I have tried ide-floppy (which is what 8.1 saw it as) I have tried ide-scsi as well.. Win works it in this box
Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -----Original Message----- From: Robert Grasso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Iomega Zip not detected under v9.0 Hello, I am wondering what is happening. I bought a brand-new P4/1.8 GHz/256 MB RAM configuration, but maybe with not enough care ? It was without the Iomega Zip which is an old device. I first installed the OS, configured and tested it; when everything worked (network, sound ...) then I installed the Iomega drive in the box and rebooted. And the Zip was not detected. I am listing below : the symptoms, several tests that I performed, and finally my configuration. 0 - the Iomega Zip is internal, 100 MB capacity 1 - symptoms * harddrake2 does not see the new device * the device is seen by the kernel : in syslog, I get hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive dmesg shows hdc too 2 - tests - the drive itself works ! it was in an old 486 box running RedHat 7.1 : I just mounted the drive back in the 486 and started it : it works, I can mount it and read files on the zip. - my previous box was a P-200 with Mandrake 8.2 and kernel 2.4.18, a SCSI hard disk and another internal 100 MB IDE Iomega Zip : I learned there the ide-scsi configuration. On this P-200 both Iomega Zip work currently, with the ide-scsi driver. - I tried to configure the device by hand, first with the IDE driver, then with the ide-scsi driver: * IDE : declare ide-floppy in /etc/modules, and the corresponding line in /etc/fstab * SCSI, as IDE did not work : declare module ide-scsi in /etc/modules, add "hdc=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf, and add "/dev/sda /mnt/zip ..." in /etc/fstab. For both previous points : it's interesting : the kernel goes far enough : for sda for example : sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB well, I don't know if I should bother about the "1GB". Anyhow, the drive is accessed - but when I want to mount it, I get (I did not write it down accurately) "wrong fs type, wrong option, bad superblock" in each case, IDE or SCSI. 3 - Configuration - the motherboard is from DFI (is this the error ?) www.dfi.com, model NB70-BC or NB71-BC, I cannot guess which of both it is : for NB70-BC, the Intel chipset is 845D, for the other one it's 845E. But Google shows noone using such motherboard in a Linux configuration :-( - the IDE controller, as returned by lspci, is Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05) - there are two IDE connectors, I have the hard drive and a DVD on the first one, the Iomega is alone on the second one, the jumper on Master position. - in the BIOS, the PIO/DMA selection is set to Auto - in the motherboard booklet documentation, they say: "PCI Bus Master Controller * Two PCI IDE interfaces * Supports ATA/33, ATA/66 and ATA/100 hard drives * PIO Mode 4 Enhanced IDE (data transfer rate up to 14 MB/sec) * Bus mastering reduces CPU utilisation during disk transfer * Supports ATAPI CD-ROM, LS-120 and ZIP" - the DVD is a Pioneer DVD-117 : not really present in the supported hardware list, but it works : one can notice that the installation went very smoothly, but when I logged in the first time, I did not see the drive any more ! I looked around, finally installed myself the driver "ide-cd" in /etc/modules, then I was able to mount and read CDs. But if I want to do a very large job : such as query all the rpms of an installation CD, I get plenty of errors if supermount is enabled; if it's disabled, there are almost no errors - but I am not sure that there are really no errors at all. If somebody has an idea, it would be nice ! Best regards -- Robert Grasso @home --- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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