Hello,
I've wrestled with a ZIP-100 (manuf. '97) parallel
drive for some time now and just cannot get it to
work. The drive should be supported by the ppa driver
I suppose(?).
The ppa driver loads fine, but fails when I try to
mount a disk. I tried iomega's guest.exe in MS-DOS and
it works well. Here's some messages I get:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 16
bit
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 16
bit
scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
That's the driver loading, obviously. Then, when I try
to mount a disk:
# mount /dev/sda4 /zipdisk -t vfat
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry
failed after bus reset: host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
And after that /dev/sda isn't, of course, usable
anymore. (Btw. how do I enable offline SCSI devices
again?)
I'm using a 2.4.21-rc7-ac1 kernel. In addition to the
EPP-16 mode shown, I also tried EPP32 and PS2 modes
with the same results (mount failing). So, is there
anything else I could try? Might this be an -ac1
kernel-bug?
-- chan
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