[ale] Jazz disk (ATAPI)

John M. Mills jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu
Tue Sep 8 10:39:21 EDT 1998


I understood that was the partitioning choice made by Iomega, and that you
could change it by manual intervention (i.e., fdisk).  I did not test this
as I prefer to make minimal changes in case it affects portability.

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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, frank zamenski wrote:

> 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
> 
> ----------
> 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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