Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:56:17 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.9 to 2.4.14 bug & workaround |
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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.
-- Matthias Andree
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