Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:50:48 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Iomega ZIP-100 drive unsupported with jmicron JMB361 chip? |
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trash can wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Success! > I downloaded kernel-2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.fc9.src.rpm from the Fedora > development tree. Went through "rpm dependecy hell" and solved all > dependencies by installing other fc9 rpms. I used > config-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 as my starting point. My > config-2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.local.fc8 is attached. > > After compilation and installation of the kernel rpm, upon boot I could > see a device sdc4 being created, but boot failed with > "mount: missing mount point", some errors in mounting from setuproot and > switchroot. > > I believe the problem was with the Red Hat/Fedora anaconda installer > and/or grub, and my multiboot machine setup. I had not been able to boot > updated fc8 kernel packages, only the originally installed kernel. > Note that my Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 distributions share no directories > (one exception) and all this work is taking place in the Fedora 8 > distribution. The /boot partition IS shared among my distributions. > I found my /etc/fstab file had two "/" mount point entries. The last line > contained LABEL=/ and is a reference to my Fedora 7 root partition. > I deleted this line from fstab as I did not want to change the mount > point for this line to mount my Fedora 7 distribution on Fedora 8. > This kernel installation process was appending LABEL=/ to my kernel > line in grub.conf: > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.local.fc8 ro root=/dev/VGf800/LogVol00 rhgb quiet LABEL=/ > > LABEL=/ was removed from the line. > > I then needed to recreate my initrd image: > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.local.fc8.img \ > 2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.local.fc8 > > Finally I was able to boot (Zip disk inserted) to the local kernel and the > Zip drive works as expected. > > # blkid > /dev/sdc4: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="ZIP-100" UUID="4910-1305" TYPE="vfat" > > dmesg: > ata9.00: ATAPI: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, KS0B, max UDMA/66 > ata9.01: ATAPI: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, 05.H, max MWDMA1, CDB intr > ata9.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable > ata9.00: configured for UDMA/33 > ata9.01: configured for MWDMA1 > scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S KS0B PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > scsi 8:0:1:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 05.H PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] 196608 512-byte hardware sectors (101 MB) > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 40 00 00 > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] 196608 512-byte hardware sectors (101 MB) > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 40 00 00 > sd 8:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > sdc: sdc4 > > My thanks to all the great people who solved this problem and those who patiently > responded to my queries. > > - -RoyBoy626 > I've been behing reading this list, I was going to say that I have always had best luck with those drives using the old idescsi driver, although I haven't used a kernel newer than... 2.6.18 or so on the old machines. Since you have a solution I won't suggest you try that with an old kernel ;-)
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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