I'm putting this under mount b/c I'm not to sure where else it would fit... I'm pretty sure it's not a physical problem, it works fine with 5.2 and *cough* Windows, but for some reason RH6 wants to give me a hard time... When I first set up the mount point under linuxconf i got the error: "hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and zero bytes as its capacity" While reading from and writing to the drive, I get the errors: "ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc=0, key=2, asc=3a, ascq=0", - and - "ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc=2a, key=2, asc=3a, ascq=0" "end_request: I/O error, dev <time> (hdd), sector < # >" Both errors repeat until the process is complete. When reading, I end up getting the data uncorrupted... but it will not write properly. I've tried everything I can think of to fix this... not a severe problem, but it makes my weekly backups a pain in the *@^#%... %)
We have observed this to be a problem and are working on a soltution. Basically it is a kernel bug and the patch will be hopefully incorporated into our next kernel release either in errata or rawhide.redhat.com. Until then you can use ide-scsi emultation which allows the zip drive to work properly. add to your /etc/conf.modules file the following line alias scsi_adaptor ide-scsi if you've got a device that needs to be ide-scsi and don't have any other scsi devices, and post-install scsi_hostadapter modprobe ide-scsi if you've got other scsi's and scsi is in kernel, use install ide-scsi modprobe ide-scsi Upon rebooting of the machine you can do a modprobe ide-scsi which will find the zip drive and tell you what scsi device it is assigned. Normally it will be /dev/sda4 or something similar. Then you would just do mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip