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 1NS5Ai-0002qz-L8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:53:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C13B8E07F6; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939C5E07F6 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:53:10 +0000 (UTC) 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-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KVR001NENCMBW90@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:10 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,504,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="39742761" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:10 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o058rAdj026519 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id B6464B84; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:53:09 +0100 (CET) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <854dca5c1001041202o4ba6836eu6c100c9a40a05a50@mail.gmail.com> Message-id: References: <854dca5c1001041202o4ba6836eu6c100c9a40a05a50@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f9dc2a6e-cbd3-4a31-adb1-def5ed502835 X-Archives-Hash: 29d55e32733dbb56691605d02a13f781 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 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