From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:09 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tkrat.5fdcb8e350173fa9@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854dca5c1001041202o4ba6836eu6c100c9a40a05a50@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 16:29 [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto Helmut Jarausch
2010-01-04 20:02 ` Kyle Bader
2010-01-05 8:53 ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2010-01-05 1:37 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
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