From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRyNu-00060S-JZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:38:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B306EE06F5; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928E2E06F5 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414A067D4F for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.037 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.037 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.438, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z1Z-JiNFL0iw for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A203D67DAD for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NRyMd-00078u-OC for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:37:39 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-179-39.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.179.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:37:39 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-179-39.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:37:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:37:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-179-39.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100104 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8cbe576b-3e20-4065-bf02-cb790a626cd0 X-Archives-Hash: b6eb076dd35e18d9483c7a3c19051c57 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.