From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261494AbVGYTgn (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:36:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVGYTgh (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:36:37 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:54031 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261484AbVGYTfU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:35:20 -0400 Message-ID: <42E53FF1.5060503@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:39:29 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml@dodo.com.au CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grant Coady wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT), Jim Faulkner 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. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me