[gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

[gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

[Helmut Jarausch]

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?

Many thanks,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

[Kyle Bader]

Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and
run make oldconfig?

On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@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?
>
> Many thanks,
> Helmut.
>
> --
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>
>

-- 
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Kyle

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

[walt]

On 01/04/2010 08:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch 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)

Are there any error messages in dmesg?

I have an old parallel-port ZIP and two 1GB JAZ drives that
are gathering dust because I've replaced all three of them
with one $15 USB stick, which is far more reliable.

I wish I had the $800 back that I spent on those Iomega drives
plus the required SCSI controller  :(  I was recently tempted
to buy an expensive Blu-Ray toy, but then I remembered those
JAZ drives and changed my mind.

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

[Helmut Jarausch]

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 <jarausch@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