2.0.33: Problem with ATAPI Zip drive

Gerhard Fuellgrabe (gerd@cacofonix.harz.de)
27 Mar 1998 12:32:32 +0100


Hi folks,

yesterday I bought a new Iomega Zip Drive. It runs as master
/dev/hdc together with a slave CD-ROM drive. My mainboard is
a Gigabyte GA586TX.

I've enabled the ATAPI Floppy option and made a new kernel.

The computer is dual boot Win95/Linux. In Win95, the Zip drive
runs fine as drive D:, but in Linux there are the following boot
messages:

<4>Linux version 2.0.33 (root@antje) (gcc version 2.7.2.3.f.1) \
#12 Fri Mar 27 10:06:25 MET 1998
<4>Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
<4>ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
<4>hda: WDC AC31200F, 1222MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63
<4>hdb: IBM-DAQA-33240, 3098MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63, DMA
<4>hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
<4>hdd: CD-524EA, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[...]
<3>ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
<3>ide-floppy: Can't get drive capabilities
<6>hdc: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
<5>hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
[...]

antje:/root # mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /zip
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems

Is there a patch available to keep the ATAPI floppy driver up
to date?

Regards,
Gerry

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