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[juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Juergen Braukmann)]

reg hughson wrote:

I use, as said, the stock kernel. I remember a hard time to get my drive
to work. There were jumbers on the back for slave / master and some bad
/ undocumented settings. I had to change the latter. This might be a
misleading information, since my drive wasn't recognised prior to that
at all. Had a short look into my version of the SDB, no clues. I have no
further ideas, sorry.

Juergen

> 
> Was using a pre-installed kernel that came with 6.2 until recently when
> I recompiled. Either way it, didn't work. And my is also recognised as
> /dev/hdd.
> 
> Juergen Braukmann wrote:
> >
> > reg hughson wrote:
> > >
> > > I have an internal Zip drive which works well under Linux except for one
> > > thing...I can't eject the disk no matter whether it is mounted or
> > > unmounted. According to the SuSE 6.2 manual, IDE zip drives are treated
> > > the same as IDE hard drives. Is this why I can't eject it? Anyone else
> > > run into this or can anyone offer suggestions....kind of pointless to
> > > have a zip drive if I can't change disks.
> > >
> >
> > that's odd. my zip is recognised as /dev/hdd (and not /dev/hdd4 as in
> > many other cases). I didn't bother (yet) to roll my own kernel, still
> > use the stock one. No problem with ejecting the disk. If I press eject
> > while mounted, the drive memorises this action and ejects after the
> > umount. If you rolled your own kernel, did you compile in support for
> > atapi / ide floppy?
> >
> > Juergen
> >


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