Re: ZIP drive question..
It is an IDE internal 100Mb ZIP drive.
(dmesg | grep ZIP displays->
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI DRIVE, ATAPI FLOPPY drive)
When hdd=scsi is removed, system still tries to access it as
scsi drive.
What is the option for this drive to be treated as ide/atapi drive?
hdd=ide and hdd=atapi are treated as BAD options by the kernel.
-ishwar
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:47, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> > System is Debian testing (kernel 2.6.5) installed from Knoppix-3.4
> > The PC has a 100Mb ZIP drive in it.
> >
> > It is detected at boot time (dmesg -> hdd).
> >
> > Lilo.conf has option hdd=scsi in it..
> >
> > Attempt to mount the disks in it as
> >
> > # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/test
> > results in:
> > mount: /dev/sda4 is not valid block device
> > similar messge when /dev/hdd4 is mounted.
>
> You didn't say what type of connection the drive is using, but judging
> by the fact that you said that the drive is 'in' the computer (and that
> it's being detected as hdd), I'm guessing that it's an internal IDE
> drive. If that's the case, why do you want to access it as a SCSI
> device? Have you tried taking out the hdd=scsi line in lilo.conf and
> accessing it directly as hdd?
>
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