Alan Cox wrote: >> There may be a bug in the new IDE drivers. They seem to have a >> problem with removable IDE drives. I have a 120M 3-1/2" IDE "super >> floppy" drive that is not recognized at all. (The BIOS sees it, and >> lists it the secondary interface slave drive.) There was a thread on >> this before with someone having the same problem with ZIP drives... > > ZIP drives are known to work. The "superfloppies" tried also seem to work > so far. They usually appear as ATAPI devices (so basically scsi floppy > over ATA). > > Alan > I guess it may be drive dependent then. Here is the relevant part of the logs for my "superfloppy". (Matsushita-Kotobuki LKM-F334-105) Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100) Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.00: ATAPI: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, U10I, max UDMA/33, CDB intr Aug 8 08:20:22 asus kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2.01 is the ide floppy drive, as the slave, and ata2.00 is the CD-ROM, as master. Both are on the secondary IDE controller. When I have time to play with it again, I will see if limiting the DMA mode on the drive will help. I don't know enough about the new drivers to know if it will make a difference. I also need to boot FC6 on this machine to capture how it identifies the drive... (I have to get more information so I can file a bug report...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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