[vox-tech] ZIP drive woes

[ME]

insmod load a module, but does not do deps.

You should avoid using insmod unless you know for certain that only one
module is needed.

Try rmmod the ppa module and then after it is removed, try modprobe ppa.
modprobe does mod deps and may solve the problem you are having. (It seems
more like that it will not since it appears your drive has been found, but
it is worth trying.)

Also, see if you can dd the device and see if the drive comes on.
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=10

If the light comes on, then there is a good chance you are looking at the
disk, and the drive may be ok, but the disk is bad.

Does the drive click-click-click-clik a lot while running?

Also, I do not recall zip being probved as a 1Gb disk drive in the
past. :-/

-ME

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On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, nbs wrote:
> I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on,
> and thought I'd poke around and see what I had.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive),
> I was faced with the following:
> 
>   # insmod ppa
>   Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/ppa.o
>   ppa: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.2.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
>   scsi2 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
>   scsi : 2 hosts.
>     Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: J.03
>     Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>   Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>   sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
>   sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
>   sda : extended sense code = 6
>   sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>   sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
>    unable to read partition table
> 
> 
> The ppa module remains loaded, but whenever I try to mount a disk,
> it fails too:
> 
>   $ mount /mnt/zip              [ in fstab, it's /dev/sda1 as ext2 fs ]
>   sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
>   sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
>   sda : extended sense code = 6
>   sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>   sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
>    unable to read partition table
>   mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>   sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
>   sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
>   sda : extended sense code = 6
>   sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>   sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
>    unable to read partition table
>   mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> 
> 
> I tried mounting them as DOS disks, too (/dev/sda4 as vfat fs),
> and I was sure that the "lp" kernel module was disabled before
> I tried doing the "insmod ppa".
> 
> 
> Could it be that my dusty old Iomega drive has finally kicked the
> bit bucket?
> 
> Or perhaps all four of the disks I'm trying to read are dead!?
> (I know one of them worked fairly recently... I believe it was the
> disk I tested the Zip drive on when I put this P133 system back together)
> 
> FYI I'm running Debian 2.2 and kernel 2.2.18pre21, which came with it.
> I didn't build the kernel on this box.  Looking at the kern. config
> file "/boot/config-2.2.18pre21", I'm not sure there's any point in
> doing so:
> 
>   ...
>   CONFIG_SCSI=y
>   CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
>   ...
>   CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
>   ...
>   CONFIG_PRINTER=m
>   ...
> 
> Any ideas?  Or should I go hunt down a new drive?