Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 3043
ATAPI Zip Drive Problem
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
ATAPI internal zip drives do not mount correctly. Mine is recognized as hdd. I set up the fstab for: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,rw 0 0 When I mount it, it mounts fine. When I read or copy from a zip disk, no problems. BUT, when I write to a zip disk it corrupts the file and it is unusable. This did not occur in version 5.2. Please help - I have made the jump to Linux because of RedHat (since version 5.0) and now I find I have to go back to my old Windows machine to write to my zip disks. HELP! -Mike Dill
I was able to replicate this problem in our test lab using an internal ATAPI zip drive. Whenever a write operation is done using kernel 2.2.5-15, a hdd I/O error message is printed several times to the screen. Although the write operation seems to complete well enough, it is probably not reliable.
This is not a mount problem (R/W I/O has not do with mount) and appears similar to #3416. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3416 ***