mounting a ZIP drive

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
> I'm trying to get a ZIP drive working - but can't get to square 1.
> Basically, it seems like the system doesn't see the drive. I believe
> that the bios found it (when I booted it, it put up a message about a
> new drive). I have F7.
> 
> It's an IDE (or is it ATAPI - I'm not that well versed in that
> technology), internal, 250 Meg drive. It's on the secondary ide buss, as
> the slave (an optical drive is the master).
> 
> On the first boot, I didn't have a disk in; I put a disk in and rebooted
> - still no sign that it's been seen by the OS.
> 
> I used the Google/linux search, and found a bunch of websites about
> installing zip drives - but they all assume that things go wonderfully.
> I did find one that really explained things -
> http://comptechdoc.org/os/linux/manual3/floppy.html
> 
> I used 'modprobe imm'.
> 
> I tried this:
> dmesg | grep zip
> dmesg | grep removable
> Both had null hits.
> 
> dmesg > /tmp/dmesg
> I then read thru it line-by-line - nothing that seemed relevant.
> 
> What might be wrong? Or, what can I try to figure it out?
> 
There may be a bug in the new IDE drivers. They seem to have a
problem with removable IDE drives. I have a 120M 3-1/2" IDE "super
floppy" drive that is not recognized at all. (The BIOS sees it, and
lists it the secondary interface slave drive.) There was a thread on
this before with someone having the same problem with ZIP drives...

Mikkel
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