Hi Mike,[REMOVED earlier text]
I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel?
"Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100"
This would be /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdd. So this would be something like "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0". I am still figuring out the naming conventions - I only have 1 device/cable on this machine, so I am guessing at the second device. In any case, you may want to check /var/log/dmesg to see wnat Linux is calling the device. It should list everything detected on the IDE bus, even if it doesn't know how to handle it. The names are directly from the device. Also, what does "ls /dev/hd*" show? Do you have a /dev/hdb? I wish I had an IDE ZIP drive here so I could check on it myself.
Mikkel
Here some IDE stuff from dmesg
------------------------------------- ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: Maxtor 51536H2, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 -----------------------------------------
ls /dev/h* /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdb6 /dev/hdc /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdb7
I guess I need an hdd, which is what I used in 9.2, but it was their at 9.2 installation.
How should I create hdd, and what should my fstab entry be? I am using fat32 format on the disk. Should I format it to something else?
Mike
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. Too much going on here... Changing the format of the ZIP drive isn't going to help. Also, creatign /dev/hdd, and /dev/hdd4 probably isn't going to help ether. The problem is that the ZIP drive isn't being seen as a harddrive, but as a IDE floppy drive. You ca try running "modprobe ide-floppy". I am not sure if the driver will handle it properly, or not. It should at least get you an entry in the /sys/bus/ide tree. Try it, and see what gets put into /var/log/messages when you do - it should help.
If I get a chance, I'll see what I can find on google about this, as I am sure you are not the first person to have an IDE ZIP drive under udev. When we get it working, you are going to have to write it up for the twiki web site...
Mikkel --
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