Re: Can't Mount a Zip Drive

[Richard Lyon <rlyon01@ozemail.com.au>]

Hi,

I have a SCSII zip installed on a hamm system. During boot with no disk in the 
drive I get the following messages:

aha152x: processing commandline: ok
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, 
parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: E.08
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 
sda : extended sense code = 2 
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  

You have not provided any details about your system setup, so it is hard to 
give you specific directions. It does appear that something is not quite right 
with your kernel/module setup and the scsi card is not detected. The how-to 
instuctions provide details on how this should be done. You will need to 
identify some parameters like irq, i/obase addressing and id for your scsi 
card.

For normal dos/win formatted zip disks, you have to mount /dev/sda4, as this 
is the default used by iomega.

Hope some of this helps and your not just trolling ...