You are right, I tried it two days ago, unsuccessfully. But I was confused by the transformation of HardDrake into a GUI, and I assumed - well, that the detection of new hardware was suppressed, that harddrake only could display the existing hardware - so after some fighting, research, I finally understood. I tried again right now to set "devfs=nomount", without any more success.
I searched in Google for "2.4.19 iomega zip" and I found this post http://www.van-dijk.net/linuxkernel/200218/0190.html it was for a kernel 2.4.19-pre8 with the answer of Alan Cox: "There are a few wrinkles to iron out on the serverworks side yet." As we are some people who have the Zip problem, and if nobody answered on this list, there maybe a problem in the kernel - maybe in connection with devfs (it was not stable recently : is it, now ?). I feel like posting in some of the kernel mailing lists. It woud be nice if somebody from MandrakeSoft gives his opinion. On Friday 11 October 2002 14:49, Colin Rose wrote: > I have an atapi 250mb ZIP drive and I had the exact same difficulties. > It seems to recognise it if I look in dmesg but no matter what I tried > (and I asked around a lot too) the only thing that worked for me was > changing the line 'devfs=mount' to 'devfs=nomount' in lilo.conf. Now I > can use the drive without any hassles at all. > I have absolutely no idea what problems may be caused by doing this but > the only symptom I have seen is that my scanner icon doesnt appear > automagically on the desktop when I switch it on. > > Colin Rose > > If this is a bad idea someone is sure to pipe in and let us both know > > HTH > > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:38, Robert Grasso wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- 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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