mounting a ZIP drive
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Aug 19 17:04:23 UTC 2007
Alan Cox wrote:
>> There may be a bug in the new IDE drivers. They seem to have a
>> problem with removable IDE drives. I have a 120M 3-1/2" IDE "super
>> floppy" drive that is not recognized at all. (The BIOS sees it, and
>> lists it the secondary interface slave drive.) There was a thread on
>> this before with someone having the same problem with ZIP drives...
>
> ZIP drives are known to work. The "superfloppies" tried also seem to work
> so far. They usually appear as ATAPI devices (so basically scsi floppy
> over ATA).
>
> Alan
>
I guess it may be drive dependent then. Here is the relevant part of
the logs for my "superfloppy". (Matsushita-Kotobuki LKM-F334-105)
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error,
err_mask=0x100)
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error,
err_mask=0x100)
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error,
err_mask=0x100)
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.00: ATAPI: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, U10I,
max UDMA/33, CDB intr
Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata2.01 is the ide floppy drive, as the slave, and ata2.00 is the
CD-ROM, as master. Both are on the secondary IDE controller. When I
have time to play with it again, I will see if limiting the DMA mode
on the drive will help. I don't know enough about the new drivers to
know if it will make a difference. I also need to boot FC6 on this
machine to capture how it identifies the drive... (I have to get
more information so I can file a bug report...)
Mikkel
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