[ale] Jazz disk (ATAPI)

[frank zamenski]

I'm curious: what is the reasoning for parallel port IoZip drives being setup as /dev/hdx4? In this scheme, what are hdx1,2, and 3, then? 
-- fgz

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 From: 	Nomad the Wanderer[SMTP:nomad at orci.com]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 02, 1998 12:17 PM
To: 	chiang at nwisgw3.ic.ornl.gov; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: 	Re: [ale] Jazz disk (ATAPI)

First,
  If' it's a zip you formated/etc in winblowz, you need to 
try to mount /dev/hdd4.

Robert

Thus spake Lisa Chiang (gt6492d at gatech.campus.mci.net):

> OK:
> 
> I've searched the How-tos and Mini-Howtos and the information there doesn't
> seem to work for my ATAPI zip disk drive.  When I type dmesg, I can see that
> Linux sees it as hdd.:
> 
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI CDROM drive  
> 
> So, per one of the tips I put the following in my /etc/fstab: (/dev/zip is
> linked to /dev/hdd)
> 
> /dev/zip                  /mnt/zip                  auto   noauto,user 0 0
> 
> As root I also executed "chmod a+rw /dev/hdd" to give non-root users access to
> the disk.  Whenever I try to mount the zip disk though, I see the following
> error messages:
> 
> mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip -t msdos (I also tried mounting as vfat and ext2 -
> always same error)
> 
> mount: block device /dev/zip is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/zip,
> or too many mounted file systems
> 
> hdd: packet command error: status=0x51
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x50
> hdd: code: 0x70  key: 0x05  asc: 0x20  ascq: 0x00
> hdd: cdrom_read_intr: data underrun (3 blocks)
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40, sector 2
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> 
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.  I'm running Redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.30.  Thanks.
> 
> 
>  -- Lisa Chiang
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> gt6492d at gatech.campus.mci.net
> 

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