I seem to have a problem with a parallel port Iomega ZIP drive and 2.4.20. I have seen this on three different machines where the driver used to work just fine.
This is what I see with kernel 2.4.20-18.8 on one machine. scsi : 1 host left. 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 SPP ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using SPP scsi1 : 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 scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Linux charlesc 2.4.20-18.8 #1 Thu May 29 07:20:39 EDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux On the same machine with kernel 2.4.18-27.8.0: 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 SPP ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using SPP scsi1 : 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 scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda1 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0, type 3 Linux charlesc 2.4.18-27.8.0 #1 Fri Mar 14 06:45:49 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I see similar failures on two other machines, one with kernels 2.4.20-18.8 and 2.4.20-13.8, and the other with 2.4.20-18.8. All of these machines have run the ZIP drive successfully with older kernels. To answer two of the obvious questions, I made sure there was media in the drive and that both the media and drive worked under an older kernel. I inserted the PPA module via modprobe. In the case above, a parallel printer was attached and properly set up. I arranged for the PPA driver to be installed both before and after the printer daemon started up. On the other two computers, there was no printer attached. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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