Quoting Josh Rodman on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 03:18:30PM -0700:
Hello Richard,
* Richard Klein (Richard.Klein@nl.abnamro.com) [990428 04:08]:
hi
I just reinstalled Suse again with kernel 2.2.6 but my zip drive does not work. It gives an error that it is not a valid block device.
I just type mount /dev/hdb /zip -t vfat (that should work)
Can anyone help me? two days ago it all worked fine but after reinstalling suse it does not work anymore :-(
Well.. My first thought is "Don't reinstall". Although this is not necessarily helpful at this point, in general reinstalling linux is not relevant to fixing problems unless you have broken things as root and can't remember what you did to break them. This isn't windows folks.
On a more useful note, what kind of zip drive is this? ATAPI (IDE), parallel, SCSI? SCSI and ATAPI should simply be a matter of being sure you have the SCSI driver set up if you use SCSI, and mounting the disk.
Parallel can be more tricky, as the 2.0.36 parellel port driver fights with the zip ppa driver. Under 2.2.6 they can coexist, but of course you built this kernel yourself so I have no idea what modules you built and how you built them. You might see what is in /lib/modules/2.2.6 and you might look at /usr/src/linux/.config to remind yourself what you did.
Kind regards Richard Klein
Best of luck,
-josh --
Just as a followon note to this. I have suse 6 with a 2036 kernel on a suse 6 laptop and desktop that I have gotten a zip plus 250 working on with no additional issues besides recompiling the laptop to include scsi support at a basic level. PCMCIA services found the adaptec slim scsi card and my ethernet card but the kernel recompile and yast added a etho to the network which kind of confused things because pcmcia-cs takes care of the eth0 interface. I had a dummy0 and eth0 up at the same time with the same logical addresses... But as to the note about zip drives; I have had good luck with scsi devices so if you are using the scsi zip or zip plus with scsi support it should not be an issue. As Josh points out above, parallel device support is more tricky but it works. We have brought up parport devices but it seems that the kernel compile options for parallel port devices seems somewhat scattered across the newer kernel config options. All in all, scsi is a lot easier. My new zip plus 250 came right up on the 2.2.4 kernel off of a adaptec 2940 uw scsi host adaptor. It also came right up on the 2036 laptop kernel. The scsi zip drive comes up at /dev/sdb here since I already have a scsi jaz drive sharing my system. I would check over the kernel compile options and make sure that parport options are correct. Take care!! -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ---------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html