[SLE] problems with Iomega Zip drives in Suse 9.2

From: Gaunce Lewis (lglist_at_twcny.rr.com)
Date: 01/31/05

  • Next message: Randall R Schulz: "Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 mini install ISO - How to use FTP install with DSL" 
    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:03:48 -0500

    I have just installed Suse 9.2, and can't get my Iomega Atapi zip
    drive to work. The boot log indicates that this drive is detected as
    hdd. However, when I run the suse hardware tool, it is unable to
    find the drive unless there is a zip disk in the drive. When I put a
    zip disk in the drive, the drive acts as if it is being read briefly
    more frequently than once a minute. The slows the system down
    dramatically an produces very frequently repeated string of msgs in
    the system log of the form

    Jan 31 00:00:20 linux /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[20540]: new block
    device /block/hdd/hdd4
    Jan 31 00:00:20 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20550]: mount
    block device /block/hdd/hdd4
    Jan 31 00:00:21 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20609]: umount
    block device /block/hdd/hdd4
    Jan 31 00:00:21 linux kernel: hdd: hdd4
    Jan 31 00:00:21 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20609]:
    umount: /dev/hdd4: not mounted
    Jan 31 00:00:21 linux kernel: hdd: hdd4

    As far as I can tell, subfs doesn't support zip drives. I have tried
    inserting the appropriate entries in fstab for the zip drive such as

    /dev/hdd4 /media/zip vfat noauto,users

    but this has no effect. Similar fstab entries worked fine in Suse 9.1
    and several different versions of Red Hat.

    The oddest thing about all of this is that, when I list the
    directory /dev, there is no entry of the form hdd4. Every other
    possible hdd# is there, but hdd4 is missing. However, this is the
    right partition for a vfat formatted zip disk.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Gaunce Lewis 

    -- 
Check the headers for your unsubscription address
For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com
Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
  • Next message: Randall R Schulz: "Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 mini install ISO - How to use FTP install with DSL"

    Relevant Pages