On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:30:30PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > My method to get iomega external zip drives to work under FC1 has > been to do: modprobe ppa and then use /dev/sda4. I just tried that on one of my computers here (~1100 MHz Athlon, FC2 as updated) and it worked. One caveat: I always have a ZIP disk in the drive when I "modprobe ppa". That shouldn't be required, but doesn't hurt. > > This used to work and now it doesn't. What doesn't work? What symptoms are you seeing? What error messages? Have you tried the same drive and disk on a different computer? Check dmesg and /var/log/messages for error messages. > In addition zip disks created on an internal iomega drive l > associated with /dev/hdd can not be read on the external zip drive. Could one or the other drive have gone bad, or the ZIP disk? badblocks is your friend here. > > Currently most commands say /dev/sda4 is not a block device and when I > do a mkfs it starts but when it starts writing blocks the iomega drive > sounds like a machine gun which never stops and the process can't be > easily killed. Er, sounds like a bad drive or disk. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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