Zip drive

["Randy Heiland" <heiland@ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

Warning - I'm a fairly new & naive user of both PCs and Linux...

I have a Dell (NT) and am running Redhat 5.1 Linux.
Things are working pretty well, but now I'd like to figure out how to use
the internal Iomega Zip drive (ATAPI, I guess) from Linux.  I should say that
the PC has an internal CD drive and an internal floppy drive too.

Here's a portion of my /var/log/messages, which makes me suspect some
hardware problem (IRQ?):

> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100, 96MB w/16kB
> Cache, CHS=512/12/32
> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on

> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel:  hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status=0x50 {
DriveReady SeekComplete }

> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: SB 3.1 detected OK (220)
> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: Sound: IRQ2 already in use
> Jan 30 16:53:57 localhost kernel: sb: Can't allocate IRQ2

Someone else advised me to create an approp subdir under /mnt, and mount
the drive manually, which I did:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdrive

Warning- I wouldn't know an IRQ or a BIOS if it bit me.  Nor do I know what
kernel I'm running (how do I find that out?)

thanks for any advice,
--Randy

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