Thanks to all of you that have been willing to submit help for my previous posting (Zip drive problems). However, I can still not figure out how to get this thing working. I am using a USB 100 Mb Iomega Zip drive, have hotplug, modutils, usbutils, ifupdown installed, have built into the kernel usb-storage, usb-core, ide-scsi, sg. I have tried all of what have been suggested in the answers for the previous posting. Trying to mount the drive as /dev/sdYX where X can be any number and Y can be a, d etc, does not produce any results - still get the answer that sdaX is not a block device. When I try to run fdisk on /dev/sda, I get the message back "unable to open /dev/sda". I have created a mount point /zip , and in the /dev/fstab I have added /dev/sda4 /zip auto rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777 0
Below is the part of the start up message that deals with usb/zip drive: .... scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. eth0: Initial media type 10baseT. usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.237 $ time 23:10:21 Mar 13 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1040, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1839 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1846 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi : 2 hosts. usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1891 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1999 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 10.V Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 2009 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 2015 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 2022 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 2028 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 8 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 14 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 20 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 26 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 37 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 45 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 53 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 59 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 65 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 71 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 77 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 88 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 99 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 115 usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 785 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 791 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 797 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 803 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 809 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 815 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 821 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 827 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 833 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 839 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 845 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 851 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 857 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 863 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 869 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 875 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 881 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 887 usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1550 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1556 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1562 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1568 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1574 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1580 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1586 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1592 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1598 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 00 sda : sense not available. sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 .... Let me add that I am new to Linux, so I have no clue of what to do from here... Thanks for any help! JTLarsen
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