Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:54:59 +0100 | From | Peter Wächtler <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.9 to 2.4.14 bug & workaround |
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Matthias Andree schrieb: > > Peter Wächtler schrieb am Dienstag, den 13. November 2001: > > > On the IDE I mount /dev/hdb, on the USB thing I mount sd[ab]4 > > depending if the flash reader is there or not. > > Hmh? > > Do these behave differently? In particular, do the IDE Zip drives hide > the partition structure... > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdb4 1 1536 98288 6 FAT16 > > ...which is evidently there? > > > Until now I thought it had something to do with the different gendisk, > > LDM or so. > > Well, you may also see firmware and/or design flaws in the drive > (personally, I have never trusted iomega, because on the CeBIT fair in > Hannover, I once asked them "why should I prefer iomega ZIP or JAZ over > SyQuest" and they had no answer except "we're just better". I later > heard complaints about the SCSI ID only to be chosen from 5 or 6, 25-pin > SCSI connectors and stuff, then there was the click-of-death sabotage > and now there is your "partition entry or not" problem.) > > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/zip/zip-1.html has some info which does > not look too promising when you're after consistent behaviour across the > various drive types (interface-wise, that is). > > Judging from what's on that page, the IDE driver seems to know it's just > a "floppy" without partitions, but the USB driver sees the (fake) > partitions. >
Wow, thanks for this link. It explains the details very well.
Nov 12 21:50:51 picklock kernel: hdb: 98288kB, 196576 blocks, 512 sector size Nov 12 21:50:51 picklock kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,68) Nov 12 21:50:54 picklock kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 Nov 12 21:50:54 picklock kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 5, Nov 12 21:50:54 picklock kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb), sector
<4>hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
This was an attempt of (mdir z: with z: mapping to /dev/hdb4)
BTW, on the same day I bought this thing, "Linux" did demolish my only media. But luckily I also bought a SB Live!, told the dealer, that I am running an Athlon with 686_A_ (not B) southbridge and the soundcard does not work also.
I got a different soundcard and a new ZIP media for no extra costs ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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