Re: Atapi Zip detection woes!
Hi,
AFAIK, there are 2 versions of ZIP drives, either connected to the
parallel port or to an SCSI controller. Which one do you have?
You need the following modules (you may have to recompile your kernel):
scsi_mod, sd_mod;
parallel port version only: imm, ide-scsi;
SCSI version: the correct driver for your SCSI card.
That should do, at least it does for me (with the parport vesion).
HTH
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:12:54PM -0500, Rthoreau wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:10 am, rthoreau wrote:
> > Dear: fellow Debian users;
> >
> > I am having a problem setting up my Atapi Iomega Zip drive under
> > Debian. I have followed the Zip disk howto, and have done all its
> > suggestions but I am still not able to have the device work.
> >
> > First off I have the Zip Drive attached to a Promise Ultra 133 ATA
> > controller card (yes according to promise it is able to load devices
> > other than hard drives). The Bios of the card does not load due to
> > it being a Atapi device. The drive does work under windows attached
> > to the controler card. I have installed the promise 20269 driver and
> > my system does see the card per dmesg, which is in parts below.
> >
> > // this is my kernel parameters passed at boot time.
> > Kernel command line: ro noapic root=/dev/hdd6 hda=ide-scsi
> > hdb=ide-scsi
> >
> > // I also get this error message.
> > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> >
> > // this is a section that lists my ide devices.
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> > idebus=xx
> > hda: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdb: JLMS DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdc: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
> > hdd: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> >
> > // this section reflects my controller card.
> > PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0b.0
> > PDC20269: chipset revision 2
> > PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1410-0x1417, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1418-0x141f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> >
> > // what is kind of weird the last few lines of dmesg show this.
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)]
> > parport0: irq 7 detected
> > imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
> > // of course imm is the module name I am trying to install.
> >
> > Now after I have run update-modules, and depmod which I beleive is
> > the same thing. When I try to modprobe imm I get this.
> >
> > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No
> > such device
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> > You may find more information in syslog or the output from
> > dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed
> >
> > If I try a insmod I get this:
> >
> > Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_claim_Rsmp_dc843753
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_register_device_Rsmp_75a20b73
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_unregister_device_Rsmp_0cffd5b6
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_release_Rsmp_e2338255
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_enumerate_Rsmp_b88956ae
> > Raiz-MPX:/home/rcall# modprobe imm.o
> > Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep
> > modprobe: Can't locate module imm.o
> >
> > Which I beleive is the real problem, after googling for the above
> > error messages I came up empty. I used the Iomega new driver as my
> > zip drive is only a couple of years old and is a atapi 250 iomega zip
> > drive.
> >
> > I have also used modconf to install the module but did not pass any
> > parameters, which I don't know any anyway, of course it failed.
> >
> > Below is what /proc/pci says.
> >
> > Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
> > Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
> > (rev 2).
> > IRQ 11.
> > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18.
> > I/O at 0x1438 [0x143f].
> > I/O at 0x1430 [0x1433].
> > I/O at 0x1428 [0x142f].
> > I/O at 0x1424 [0x1427].
> > I/O at 0x1410 [0x141f].
> > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0003fff].
> >
> > I have also looked at syslog which does not really show much, I have
> > a LCDproc daemon running which defaults to syslog. So maybe some of
> > you guys could shed some light on this subject. What parameters do I
> > need to pass when using modconf? If you want all of Dmesg, or other
> > log files I will be more than happy to supply them.
> >
> > Thanks;
> >
> > Rthoreau
>
> I have been scouring the net for more information and still came up
> empty. I even recompiled my kernel to use the ppa module but it gave
> me an error message to use Imm module. I rmmod most modules, but still
> fails to load the imm module. I passed the parameters listed in
> /proc/pci but it still fails. I guess the next step is too change the
> harddrives to the card and put the zip drive on the motherboard and see
> what that does. It could be a promise to imm problem, but I don't know
> for sure. I can not find any data that anyone has my exact setup.
> Maybe I will give up on the zip drive, but it would be nice to have
> every piece of hardware working in Debian as in Windows.
>
> I did find a really old reference back in 1999 or thereabouts about a
> problem someone had if one of the scsi drivers was part of the kernel,
> and the imm module was not, but it was for redhat. It seems he could
> detect his drive but had problems writing to it. cdrecord -scanbus
> does not even see the drive. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Rthoreau
>
>
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