Re: [SLE] 9.1 & Zip Drive problem - SOLVED (in some ways)

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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:44:19 -0400
To: SuSE Support Group <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

This just keeps getting more and more interesting. Two dissimilar boxes,one
computer "A", with 9,1 PRO fresh install, and the other , computer "B", with 9.0
Pro fresh install Neither resulted in a recognized ZIP drive after "normal"
install.

Now we have the ZIP working in both machines but here is what's so interesting:

Similarities:

1) Both drives (A & B) are ATAPI 250 Zip Drives.

2) Both drives are slaves on the IDE chain (A is on IDE0, B is on IDE1).

3) Both systems' fstab entries for the Zip drives are geared for "auto" but
both use vfat zip disks almost exclusively.

Differences:

1a) Computer "A" has a 20Gb HDD on the primary IDE with a primary ms-windows
partition (hda) and Linux installed into several logical drives in an extended
partition (hde) with the Zip as the slave on IDE0, making it hdf, and a DVD-ROM
and CD-RW on IDE1 as hdg and hdh, respectively;

1b) Computer "B" has 2 10Gb HDDs on the primary IDE chain (hda is /, and hdb is
/home) with a CD-RW and the ATAPI Zip on the secondary IDE chain as hdc and hdd,
respectively.

2) Machine "B" is running SuSE 9.0 Pro, Computer "A" is running SuSE 9.1 Pro
(although submount ... daemon from the nether-reaches of Hell ... is not running
the Zip drive on machine "A", thanks to our intervention.)

3a) We brought Zip "A" into the "mounting world" with the fstab line:

     /dev/hdf4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0

3b) Computer "B" Zip works ... at the same point (slave) on the IDE chain
(IDE0) with the following command:

     /dev/hdd /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0

Note: On computer "B", no trailing "1" or "4". On computer "A", we must have
the "4".

WHAT THE ...?! After all that manual browsing and web searching, another @$#!&%
QUANDARY?!

Needless to say, I'm more than a little confused and in dire need of a guru.

Anyone up to this?

tia,

dave

David Johanson wrote:
> After doing a clean install of 9.1, I find that printing of email from
> mozilla is broken, I have absolutely no USB functionality, and my
> internal ide zip 250 is not recognized. Based on a suggestion that the
> zip drive should follow the protocol for a floppy, and due to boot
> message identifying the zip as hdf, see below, I modified /etc/fstab to
> read as follows:
>
> /dev/hdf /media/zip auto noauto,user,exec 0 0
>
> Bootup now displays the following info:
>
> <4>hdf: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> <6>hdf: 244766kB, 489532 blocks, 512 sector size
> <6>hdf: 244736kB, 239/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> <5>hdf: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive
> only handles 250609664
> <5>hdf: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive
> only handles 250609664
> <6> hdf: hdf4
> <3>ide-floppy: hdf: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 0
> <6> hdf:<3>ide-floppy: hdf: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq
> = 0
> <3>Buffer I/O error on device hdf, logical block 0
> <4> unable to read partition table
> <3>ide-floppy: hdf: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 0
> <3>hdf: No disk in drive
>
>
> What do I need to change to get 9.1 to properly mount my internal zip 250?
>
> dave
>

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