Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I want to confirm Gene Poole's post about Fedora 7 > (and kernel 2.6.2x) non-support of ATAPI IOMEGA Zip Drives. > Neither Fedora 7's nor kernel.org's kernels recognize the device. > > Back in Fedora Core 6 (and kernel 2.6.18), the drive was > /dev/hda (or /dev/hdb, whatever). But the best Fedora 7 > can do is create /dev/sdb, unless the drive actually has > a disk inside. Then Fedora 7 creates /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb4 > (or /dev/sdb1 if you have made your own Linux partition). That actually sounds right... on newer kernels /dev/hd* is dead and all IDE devices appear as logical scsi devices. So the fact it gets as far as recognizing and creating /dev/sdb1 for example sounds pretty good. > I have tried building several 2.6.21.3 kernels, but they all > fail to recognize the drive. Only the program, sfdisk, can > read anything from the device without generating any error > messages. The command, sfdisk -l /dev/sdb, prints out > what seems to be one good diagnostic message and a > reasonable partition table. How do you mean "fail to recognize the drive" when you are also saying you get a /dev/sdb1 created? That sounds like the drive is recognized fine. I wouldn't tell you everything is tickety-boo with the libata stuff because a few days ago I had to remove a DVD drive from a laptop to get it to complete a boot and udev with 2.6.23-rc1. But it would be good to see the "error messages". -Andy
