Description of problem: After booting into 2.4.20-13.9 (i686) my parallel-port connected ZIP drive no longer works. When I boot back to 2.4.20-9 (i686) it works again. This model uses the imm driver; I have seen an identical failure report for a modem that uses the ppa driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-13.9 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to 2.4.20-13.9 2. Load ZIP drive driver module Actual results: imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit scsi3 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: L.58 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 3 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 unable to read partition table Expected results: imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit scsi3 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: L.58 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: sdb4
Tried 13.9.1 - no change.
The newer Scsi code does further checks on the drive being ready etc. It looks like this is the problem. Unfortunately it'll take someone with the hardware to figure out why the sd driver decided the disk was still offline
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91381 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.