[ILUG] Fw: friend's zip drive problem

[Rik Dunphy]

I remember seeing a post somewhere about a bug with the ZIP ATAPI drives
(maybe others as well) with kernel 2.2.13. If it mounts the drive read
only, consider yourself lucky as the post I saw mentioned that the old TOC
was written onto the second disk, thereby destroying all data on the disk.

This has been fixed in 2.2.14 I believe. Have no problems with my Zip Plus
on SCSI with either 2.2.13 or 2.2.14 (also running SuSE 6.3).

Hope that is of help
RikD

> > --
> >
> > Hi, I`ve had a look through the previous discussions and can`t find what
> I`m
> > looking for.
> >
> > I have a Zip100 drive mounted on my Linux machine (Dell XPS T700r, 256MB,
> > SuSE 6.3, kernel 2.2.13) under /dev/hdd4
> >
> > Normally it works without any problems, but occasionally, after I unmount
> a
> > disk and mount a different disk, a  ls  shows the contents of the previous
> > disk, not the new disk.  It then tells me that the disk has been mounted
> > readonly.
> >
> > I`ve tried remounting the original disk, but that`s now readonly too.
> >
> > A  mount  tells me that the disk is mounted  rw, and the only solution to
> > getting the Zip working properly is to hard reboot the machine.  Obviously
> > not ideal!
> >
> > Does anyone know if this is a common problem?
> >
> > I am sharing the Zip drive through Samba, allowing access through Linux
> and
> > my VMWare virtual machine.  I stop Samba when umounting, but this doesn`t
> > seem to have any effect.
> >
> > Cheers.
> 
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