On 05-Apr-98 Michael Lankton wrote:
20 seconds after I sent this in my zip cartridge ejected. I think I may need an exorcist here.
Michael Lankton wrote:
ok, thanks to Urs my ide zip drive is now accessible. One more question, it's late and I've been all over looking for the answer on the web with no luck; how do I eject the medium? I tried ziptool which was on one of the distribution's cds, but ziptool -e /dev/hdd1 returns:
ziptool: /dev/hdd1 (22/65) is no raw scsi device
so I'm assuming ziptool is just for scsi drives. Hmmm, so how do I eject a cartridge on my ide zip drive? The eject button doesn't function in linux.
On the parallel-port zip (pseudo-scsi), at least, you also have to unmount the drive before it will eject. You may "umount /dev/whatever" and then press the button (and out it pops after a second or two), or you may press the button (and nothing happens) and then "umount /dev/whatever" and out it pops. But you must do both. Maybe it's similar on the internal IDE zip. Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 05-Apr-98 Time: 10:54:26 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e