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.
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...
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release
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.
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?
IDE identifiers is most likely the contents of /proc/ide/<device name>/model, media, geometry
Fixed RC2