Bug 15595

Summary:	RH 7.0 beta 5 and Zip drives
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Rogelio Noriega <rogelio_noriega>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Winston gold
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Description Rogelio Noriega 2000-08-07 03:47:33 UTC

System: Dell Precision WS420/WS620

Kudzu currently loads the ide-floppy module for zip drives.
When mounting the zip drive, the systems reports some 
errors (i/o errors) even though the drive does mount.

If the ide-scsi module is used instead of ide-floppy,
no errors are reported and the drive mounts and works correctly.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-07 03:54:04 UTC

kudzu doesn't do anything specific with IDE zip drives
aside from identify them as such; it doesn't load any
particular modules.

Assigning to kernel; sounds like an issue with the
ide-floppy driver...

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2000-08-07 17:45:15 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2000-08-08 00:27:33 UTC

Please provide the ide identifiers and the messages output by the ide-floppy
driver for this device and I'll take a look. IDE ZIP drives have the odd quirk
but should be fine.

Comment 4 Rogelio Noriega 2000-08-08 15:24:37 UTC

When mounting the zip drive with a 250MB cartidge in it,
I get the following error message:

hdd:The drive reports both 250609664 and 250640384 bytes as its capacity
hdd:hdd4

The error message is reported twice sometimes.

The message does not occur with 100MB cartidges.

If I use the ide-scsi module instead of the ide-floppy module with this zip 
drive
I don't get these messages.  The drive works with either module...

I have also seen intermittent I/O error messages reported when mounting

Please clarify what do you mean by ide identifiers?

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-15 16:02:27 UTC

IDE identifiers is most likely the contents of
/proc/ide/<device name>/model, media, geometry

Comment 6 Rogelio Noriega 2000-08-31 20:09:26 UTC

Fixed RC2