Confused on Zip Drive Implementation
When I installed SimplyMepis 3.3 the system generated the sym link for zip implementation as /dev/zip --> /dev/sda4. My zip 100 is internal IDA (controller 1,hdd). My understanding is that the sda4 is used because of SCSI emulation and the 4 means the zip is formatted to use partion 4, a Windows default. My zip disk was vfat formatted on an XP.
The only way I can get the drive to work is to change the link to /dev/sda (no 4). I ran dmesg and got the following. Note the partation table error and the use of sda not sda4. Can someone explain what's wrong and how to correct it?
dmesg:
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Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
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Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
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scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 13.A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.000.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.001.
libata version 1.10 loaded.
SCSI device sda: 196576 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 196576 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: unknown partition table (I THINK THIS IS THE PROBLEM)
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
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Thanks Mike
