ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2

ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2

[CyberOptic]

Hello,

I wanted to activate my old dust-covered IOmega ZIP-Drive 100MB (PPA),
but didn´t get it working (see dmesg-extract). Sadly, google could not
help me in my case.
Therefore my decision to ask the good people at this newsgroup  :-)

---dmesg---
pnp: Device 00:0a activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
SCSI subsystem initialized
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0
id 6 lun 0

---lsmod---
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             41540  0
ppa                    12808  0
scsi_mod              137672  1 ppa
parport                37448  2 parport_pc,ppa


Things I´ve already tried:

- BIOS Settings switched to SPP, EPP, ECP, ECP/EPP
- Reconnected the cabling
- Rebooted with ZIP-Drive a) connected and powered b) disconnected
- Loaded modules with both disk inserted and ejected
- Tried kernel-settings CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 and
  CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR

Other Information:

- Mainboard: VIA Apollo CLE266 (EPIA M10000 with VIA C3 1GHz CPU)
- Drive works with Windows 2000 on the same machine
- No printer connected to the ZIP-Drive
- Linux second 2.6.12.2 #3 Sat Jul 2 20:51:04 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Surely there is someone out there knowing a hint or solution? At least
I´m hoping so.


Thanks in advance - Sebastian

Re: ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2

[Grant Coady]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:45:52 +0200, CyberOptic <mail@cyberoptic.de> wrote:
>
>Surely there is someone out there knowing a hint or solution? At least
>I´m hoping so.

Works for me:

root@pooh:~# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/hd/
root@pooh:~# ls /mnt/hd/
1210sa~1.pdf*  aar121~1.pdf*  freedb~1.bz2*
root@pooh:~# umount /mnt/hd/
root@pooh:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/hd/
root@pooh:~# ls /mnt/hd/
1210SA_datasheet.pdf*  aar1210sa_ug.pdf*  freedb-update-20031102-20031201.tar.bz2*
root@pooh:~# umount /mnt/hd/
root@pooh:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ppa                    10280  0
tulip                  45728  0
root@pooh:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 100 MB, 100663296 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda4   *           1          96       98288    6  FAT16
root@pooh:~#

http://scatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.6/pooh/ for setup, I added 
ppa to .config as module, make && make modules_install, 
modprobe ppa and it worked.  SCSI and parport compiled in.

--Grant.

Re: ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2

[CyberOptic]

Grant Coady wrote:
> Works for me [..]

Can you post your dmesg-output after loading the ppa module, please?
Maybe this might help me.

Thanks - Sebastian

Re: ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2

[Grant Coady]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:21:07 +0200, CyberOptic <mail@cyberoptic.de> wrote:
>Can you post your dmesg-output after loading the ppa module, please?
>Maybe this might help me.
>
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.17
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
grant@pooh:~$ uname -r
2.6.12.2a

After mount:
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda4

--Grant.

Re: ppa / parport zip-drive / kernel 2.6.12.2 [RESOLVED]

[CyberOptic]

---working!---
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi9 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: D.13
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi9, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi9, channel 0, id 6, lun 0,  type 0

Grant, thanks for your help. I kicked the drive in a act of desperation
with my feet and know what - it works now. ;-) Looks like a insulate
contact. Maybe i´ll get my soldering iron hot tomorrow to fix this.

Best Regards
Sebastian