Re: ppa / kernel 2.6.12.2 / fsck results in kernel error

[Grant Coady <grant_lkml@dodo.com.au>]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:54:56 +0200, CyberOptic <mail@cyberoptic.de> wrote:
>this error (see blow) occours, if I "fsck -c" (bad cluster test) a
>medium in my parallel IOmega ZIP-Drive 100MB.
Unable to reproduce, sorry...
>
>A complete dd from /dev/zero to the device works like a charm.
Only if you read zeroes back again? :)

I wrote zeroes, format ext2, e2fsck -c, write kernel tarball, 
diff -> okay, used ATAPI zip drive in another box for 'diff'
so no cache issue/confusion.  Used low quality media (Nomai) 
that reported errors prior to format / zero / format again.

dmesg?
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.17
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0

Only complaint is 'eject' doesn't for parport nor ATAPI :(

--Grant.

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