Re: IOMEGA IDE ZIP in 2.0.33, "64-block transfer limit set"

Paulo F. Sedrez (sedrez@tecgraf.puc-rio.br)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:28:25 -0300


>From: "Etienne Lorrain" <lorrain@fb.sony.de>
>Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:32:14 +0001
>Subject: IOMEGA IDE ZIP in 2.0.33, "64-block transfer limit set"
>
> Hi,
>
> I just want to report how my ZIP floppy (100 Kbytes)
> is detected with Linux 2.0.33 :
>
>Linux SuSE 2.0.33:
>ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcb0-0xfcb7
>hda: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
>ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcb0-0xfcb7
>hda: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
>.........
>Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > sda3 sda4
>ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
>ide-floppy: Can't get drive capabilities
>hda: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
>hda: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> hda: hda4
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

I had the same problem with 2.0.33 and recently purchased ATAPI ZIP
drivers - from Feb/98. It was solved with 2.0.34.

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