Hi,
I've got a ZIP100 medium formatted as ext2 in the superfloppy format.
On the first machine the medium works flawlessly. On the second machine
the superblock is invalid. I am not sure whether this is mkfs or the
kernel, but I don't understand how this could be without kernel
involvement. The behavior is the same under 2.2.14 and 2.3.50.
Mar 14 00:24:53 ghanima kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
ide0(3,64)
Mar 14 00:24:55 ghanima kernel: hdb: hdb1
Mar 14 00:24:55 ghanima kernel: VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev
ide0(3,64).
Mar 14 00:24:55 ghanima kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
ide0(3,64)
Mar 14 00:24:55 ghanima kernel: hdb: hdb1
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > ls
capacity driver geometry identify media model settings
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat capacity
196608
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat geometry
physical 0/0/0
logical 32/64/96
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat identify
80a0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 3233
2e44 2020 2020 494f 4d45 4741 2020 5a49
5020 3130 3020 2020 2020 2020 4154 4150
4920 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000
0000 0e00 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 01f4 01f4 0000 0000 0000
0000 0006 0009 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0101
2863 2920 436f 7079 7269 6768 7420 494f
4d45 4741 2031 3939 3720 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat media
floppy
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat model
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
root@ghanima:/proc/ide/hdb > cat settings
name value min max
mode
---- ----- --- ---
----
bios_cyl 32 0 1023 rw
bios_head 64 0 255 rw
bios_sect 96 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
file_readahead 0 0 2097151 rw
ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
max_kb_per_request 32 1 127 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 0 0 1 rw
root@ghanima:/proc/ide > cat via
Command register = 0x7
Master Read Cycle IRDY 1 Wait State
Master Write Cycle IRDY 1 Wait State
FIFO Output Data 1/2 Clock Advance: off
Bus Master IDE Status Register Read Retry: on
Latency timer = 64 (max. = 0)
Interrupt Steering Swap: off
------------------Primary IDE------------Secondary IDE-----
both channels togth: yes yes
Prefetch Buffer : on on
Post Write Buffer: on on
FIFO Conf/Chan. : 08 08
Threshold Prim. : 1/2 1/2
Read DMA FIFO flush: on on
End Sect. FIFO flush: on on
Max DRDY Pulse Width: No limitation
Bytes Per Sector: 512 512
--------------drive0------drive1-------drive0------drive1----
DMA enabled: yes no yes yes
Act Pls Width: 03 11 11 07
Recovery Time: 02 09 09 06
Add. Setup T.: 4T 4T 4T 4T
------------------UDMA-Timing-Control------------------------
Enable Meth.: 0 0 0 0
Enable: yes no no no
Transfer Mode: PIO DMA DMA DMA
Cycle Time: 3T 5T 5T 5T
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