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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12
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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