On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:14:00PM -0400, Michael Klinosky wrote: > I'm trying to get a ZIP drive working - but can't get to square 1. > Basically, it seems like the system doesn't see the drive. I believe > that the bios found it (when I booted it, it put up a message about a > new drive). I have F7. > > It's an IDE (or is it ATAPI - I'm not that well versed in that > technology), internal, 250 Meg drive. It's on the secondary ide buss, as > the slave (an optical drive is the master). > > On the first boot, I didn't have a disk in; I put a disk in and rebooted > - still no sign that it's been seen by the OS. > > I used the Google/linux search, and found a bunch of websites about > installing zip drives - but they all assume that things go wonderfully. > I did find one that really explained things - > http://comptechdoc.org/os/linux/manual3/floppy.html > > I used 'modprobe imm'. > > I tried this: > dmesg | grep zip > dmesg | grep removable > Both had null hits. > > dmesg > /tmp/dmesg > I then read thru it line-by-line - nothing that seemed relevant. > > What might be wrong? Or, what can I try to figure it out? I have no idea whether libsata supports zip drives or not. But here is what I would do, modified for use on F7. Before you run "modprobe imm", insert a disk. Then set up "tail -f /var/log/messages" in another terminal. Then run the modprobe command. The output from imm should show up in the output from /var/log/messages. The driver should find a device and assign it as sdX, meaning /dev/sdX. Then run fdisk -l /dev/sdX (substituting for X as appropriate). That should tell you what partitions are on the thing. -- 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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