[ale] zip-drive blues, cont.

[Peter Ekstrom]

"John M. Mills" <jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> From the startup log (dmesg ..), there is a reference to my non-ejecting
> zip drive.  Disk identification is logged as follows:
> 
> ***
> hda: WDC AC2420F, 405MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=989/15/56
> hdb: Conner Peripherals 1275MB - CFS1276A, 1221MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=620/64/63
> hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdd: FX800S, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is an 8272A
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1
>  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
> ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
> ide-floppy: Can't get drive capabilities
> hdc: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> hdc: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
>  hdc: hdc4
> ***
> 
> Can anyone suggest a diagnosis, or relate this to my disk's failure to
> respond to '# eject /dev/hdc'?
> 
> TIA - mills
> 
>   John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer -- john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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I have a SCSI ZIP and I get similar messages during boot if I don't
have a disk in the drive.  If there's a disk in it, it will find the
size and everything...

Here's an example of what it looks like when I load the SCSI module
without a disk in the drive:

Oct  8 21:12:52 second kernel: scsi1 <fdomain>: BIOS version 3.4 at 0xca000 using scsi id 7
Oct  8 21:12:52 second kernel: scsi1 <fdomain>: TMC-18C30 chip at 0x140 irq 5
Oct  8 21:12:52 second kernel: scsi1 : Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 5.44
Oct  8 21:12:52 second kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel:   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.09
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: fdomain: REQUEST SENSE Key = 2, Code = 3a, Qualifier = 0
Oct  8 21:12:54 second last message repeated 3 times
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: sda : extended sense code = 2 
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel:  sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0, absolute sector 0
Oct  8 21:12:54 second kernel:  unable to read partition table

And here's what it looks like with a disk in the drive:

Oct  8 21:15:10 second kernel: scsi2 <fdomain>: BIOS version 3.4 at 0xca000 using scsi id 7
Oct  8 21:15:10 second kernel: scsi2 <fdomain>: TMC-18C30 chip at 0x140 irq 5
Oct  8 21:15:10 second kernel: scsi2 : Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 5.44
Oct  8 21:15:10 second kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel:   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.09
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Oct  8 21:15:12 second kernel:  sda: sda4

I don't think this is related to your eject problem, and unfortunately
I don't know what could caus it either.  Unless the ATAPI driver has
a problem talking to an IDE ZIP drive for some reason...


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