On 4 Jan, Kyle Bader wrote: > Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and > run make oldconfig?
The problem seem to be that beginning with kernel 2.6.30 the ide-scsi interface (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) has been dropped. Probably the new kernels are broken with the ATAPI floppy support. I'll have to find out how to use a PATA driver for the ZIP drive. Helmut. > > On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. >> Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. >> >> There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about >> an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but >> trying to >> >> fdisk /dev/hdd >> or even mount it, >> seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands >> never finish) >> >> Has anybody any hint on what to try? >> -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
