[ltp] zip drives

[Nick Sison]

Good Evening to one and all!  Joined the list a week or so ago and did not
catch the reference to

>>"Is this similar to the problem that occurred with the latest bios not
being able to
> >get the hda geometry (which I also ran into before subscribing to this
> >list), and if so is there a similar way around it (e.g.hdc=...)?

I think I have this particular problem with my TP600.  I have a 4.8gb drive.
4gb is used for NTFS.  I wanted to install the remaining 800mb with Red Hat
v6.0.  In trying to boot of the install CD I get the message that the bios
doesn't seem to see the hard drive.  What is that special parameter that I
have to pass at boot: ?  Thanks much for the help, sorry I didn't catch that
segment.

nick_sison@mindspring.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Joachim F. Selinger <selinger@idefix.s.bawue.de>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] zip drives


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> Hi Neil,
>
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:16:08 -0500, Neil Smyth wrote:
> >I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting access to a zip100
drive
> >in the expansion slot? I have a thinkpad600, running Redhat 6.1. The zip
> >drive gets detected ok on booting as hdc, but I cannot mount it, getting
> >errors about the physical geometry being zero. Any thoughts? Is this
> >similar to the problem that occurred with the latest bios not being able
to
> >get the hda geometry (which I also ran into before subscribing to this
> >list), and if so is there a similar way around it (e.g.hdc=...)?
> >==============================================
> >nsmyth::/root 4% mount -t vfat -o debug /dev/hdc /mnt/zip/
> >ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
> >ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
> >hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
> >mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock
>
> I'm not sure if this helps as I have not tried it myself, but consider
> mounting /dev/hdc4 and not the raw disk, as ZIP disks are formatted like
> FAT hard drives and use by default partition 4 in the Linux way of
> numbering them. Let me know if this worked!
>
> Good luck
> Jocki
>
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