Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:39:29 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12 |
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Grant Coady wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT), Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > >>Recently I upgraded from 2.6.11.11 to 2.6.12.3. This morning I tried >>using my Zip drive... unfortunately it doesn't work under 2.6.12.3. To >>verify that this was a kernel problem, I rebooted to 2.6.11.11. Here's >>some relevant output using 2.6.11.11: > > > I too see this issue, but it doesn't go away on 2.6.11.12 for me, > something is eating /dev/ nodes, writing to them, this doesn't > happen in 2.4, so yet another "don't do that", or user-space, I > haven't the foggiest. > > fdisk sees the drive on 2.6, 2.4 sees it okay on same hardware
I haven't tried on the most recent kernels, but ZIP seemed to work nicely with ide-scsi in earlier 2.6. You might want to try that as a data point if nothing else.
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