[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems with internal Zip drive

[Kevin E. Ivey]

Scott Denlinger wrote:
> I have an internal Zip drive which I can't mount. It is the secondary 
> device on my secondary IDE channel. On bootup, the kernel seems to 
> recognize that it's there, but there are no files for it in '/dev'. When 
> I was using an older kernel, it was mountable as '/dev/hdd4', but now 
> that I've compiled a new kernel, there are no entries in '/dev' at all 
> for '/dev/hdd'. Here is a grepped excerpt from my '/var/log/messages' 
> file which shows that the drive seems to be recognized.
> 

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> 
> Based on the output from the 'ls' command, I am assuming that '/dev/hdd' 
> should show up something like 'ide/host0/bus1/target1', since its the 
> secondary device on the secondary IDE channel, but there isn't an entry 
> like that.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Scott Denlinger


Howdy Scott,

On my Mandrake systems, the internal ZIP is mounted as a SCSI device 
with the ide-scsi module.  It is invoked in LILO and instructs the 
kernel to load the module and from there the Mount command uses /dev/sda 
as the mount point (per my /etc/fstab)

So your IDE Zip should be seen as a SCSI device on newer distros.

Hope that helps,

keVIn