[ale] Jazz disk (ATAPI)

[ari]

i think everyone was curious about this one at some point.

from the zip drive mini-howto faq page...
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive-7.html#ss7.5

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7.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ? 

This is one of the most popular questions, but I don't think anyone has a
definite answer to this one. Could be they had their head where the sun don't
shine. Maybe there is no reason. 
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personally, i think it was just to be original and make everyone ask why, so
they'd have some more people to laugh at.

ari



John M. Mills (jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu) said this stuff:

> 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.
> 
>   John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer -- john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
>   Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0834
>         Phone contacts: 404.894.0151 (voice), 404.894.6285 (FAX)
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>             Impatience, and Hubris." -- attr. Larry Wall 
> 
> 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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> > 
> > FYI:
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> > 
> > 
> >