Re: Zip drive

["Tim Grossner" <tg@cityscape.net>]

Actually on internal ZIP's, (and external for all i know) it would be
/dev/hdb4. Try mounting that partition.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Heiland <heiland@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: luci-discuss@luci.org <luci-discuss@luci.org>
Cc: heiland@ncsa.uiuc.edu <heiland@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: Zip drive


>
>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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