[ltp] zip drives

[Neil Smyth]

Hi,

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=...)?

Thanks,

Neil

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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

nsmyth::/root 3% cd /proc/ide/hdc
nsmyth::ide/hdc 13% cat geometry
physical     0/0/0
logical      96/64/32

nsmyth::ide/hdc 16% cat driver
ide-floppy version 0.9

nsmyth::ide/hdc 18% cat capacity
0

nsmyth::ide/hdc 20% cat model
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI

nsmyth::ide/hdc 22% cat media
floppy

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Neil Smyth
Telcordia Technologies
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