since i've installed devfs, i haven't been able to get at my zip drive. when the kernel boots, it initially sees my zip drive as hdd. in fact, if i go to /proc/ide, there is a symlink called hdd to /proc/ide/ide1/hdd, which contains the following information:
$ ls capacity driver geometry identify media model settings $ cat * 0 ide-floppy version 0.97.sv physical 0/0/0 logical 96/64/32 cat: identify: Permission denied floppy IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI cat: settings: Permission denied $ sudo cat identify 80a0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 3134 2e41 2020 2020 494f 4d45 4741 2020 5a49 5020 3130 3020 2020 2020 2020 4154 4150 4920 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0e00 4002 0000 0000 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 01f4 01f4 0000 0000 0000 0000 0006 0009 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0101 2863 2920 436f 7079 7269 6768 7420 494f 4d45 4741 2031 3939 3720 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 $ sudo cat settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- bios_cyl 96 0 1023 rw bios_head 64 0 255 rw bios_sect 32 0 63 rw breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw current_speed 0 0 69 rw file_readahead 0 0 2097151 rw ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw init_speed 0 0 69 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw max_kb_per_request 32 1 127 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw number 3 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw if i go into the devfs, however, I have only the following drive files: $ find /dev/ide/* /dev/ide/host0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 /dev/ide/host0/bus1 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /dev/ide/host1 /dev/ide/host1/bus1 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target1 /dev/ide/host1/bus1/target1/lun0 any ideas? thanks, _joe
