You can not query an IDE-FLOPPY (ATAPI Zip or LS120) for capacity with out
media :-(
hdg: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdg: 123264kB, 246528 blocks, 512 sector size, , DMA
hdg: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm
No media
hdg: The drive reports both 126222336 and 0 bytes as its capacity
hdh: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdh: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
hdh: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
No media
hdh: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Norbert.
>
> > I have some problems with ATAPI Zip drive: When loading
> > ide-floppy.o or fdisk or ... always the following is
> > reported:
>
> > Q> "The drives reports both ..... and ...... byts capacity"
>
> > where the numbers are different. Then neither fdisk nor
> > mke2fs works.
>
> > I use 2.2.14.
>
> I see this with my ATAPI Zip-250 under 2.2.12, but fdisk, mke2fs,
> etc, all work there.
>
> ALAN: You will probably remember my commenting on seeing the
> above message to you a while back. Any idea what might have
> changed since to cause this?
>
> Incidentally, when I put a Zip-100 disk in the drive, the two
> values are approximately 250M and approximately 100M
> resspectively, and when I put a Zip-250 in, they are DIFFERENT
> numbers, but both approx 250M. I can't check the exact numbers at
> the moment as the relevant box is down following a hard drive
> crash...
>
> > Please CC: to me, since I am not subscribed. Thanks a lot.
>
> NP.
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
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