Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and Iomege Zip drive
>> "CL" == Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:
I have the same problem with a parallel port ZIP drive on a box with a
host adapter for the HD.
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 /mnt
mount: /dev/sdb4 is not a valid block device
# modprobe ppa
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 /mnt
# grep ppa /etc/conf.modules
alias block-major-8-20 ppa
CL> What does 'tail /var/log/daemon.log' say when you try to mount the
CL> Zip drive without modprobing the module first?
Nothing.
The only thing is in syslog
Jun 19 11:35:24 haitech kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.13
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Jun 19 11:35:25 haitech kernel: sdb: sdb4
Even if parport and parport_pc are loaded, the result is the same.
Ciao,
Martin
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