Re: Zip Drive


Subject: Re: Zip Drive
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 17:35:14 MDT


"Eric L. Santelices" wrote:
>
> I was wondering if there are some faq's or a howto doc on how to get my scsi
> internal ZIP drive working.

The kernel should detect it if it has scsi support compiled in. The
stock kernels do.

I think its mostly a matter of making entries in your /etc/fstab if
you're using ydl.

here's mine:

$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda10 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /exchange hfs defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/sdb4 /zipdos vfat
noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777
/dev/sdb1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
/dev/sdb2 /ziphfs hfs noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/sda6 /root2 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home2 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 /usr2 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda11 /root3 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda12 /home3 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda13 /var3 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda14 /usr3 ext2 defaults 0 0

Below is what the kernel boot procedures think about my scsi zip drive
and scsi zip drive

]$ grep scsi /var/log/*
/var/log/dmesg:(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI
1/2/0
/var/log/dmesg:(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
/var/log/dmesg:(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
/var/log/dmesg:(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions
downloaded
/var/log/dmesg:scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast
SCSI) 5.1.31
/3.2.4
/var/log/dmesg:scsi1 : MESH
/var/log/dmesg:scsi : 2 hosts.
/var/log/dmesg:(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
/var/log/dmesg:Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
/var/log/dmesg:Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id
6, lun 0
/var/log/dmesg:scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
/var/log/dmesg: sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found
at PCI1/2/0
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415
instructions dow
nloaded
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
 5.1.31/3.2.4
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:scsi1 : MESH
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:scsi : 2 hosts.
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 15.
/var/log/dmesg_2.2.17:Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3,
lun 0
/var/log/dmesg~:(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
/var/log/dmesg~:(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
/var/log/dmesg~:(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions
downloaded
/var/log/dmesg~:scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast
SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4
/var/log/dmesg~:scsi1 : MESH
/var/log/dmesg~:scsi : 2 hosts.
/var/log/dmesg~:(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
/var/log/dmesg~:Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
/var/log/dmesg~:Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id
6, lun
0
/var/log/dmesg~:scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
/var/log/dmesg~: sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0



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