Zip 250, pcmcia, laptop.

Philippe Renevey

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Jan 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/27/00

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I try to install a Iomega Zip 250 M. On a laptop with SCSI PCMCIA card
Adaptec APA-1460 Slimscsi.

When I put the card with the Zip, the disk is not found.

What is wrong.

I use ReadHat 6.1 and the Zip work fine on a destop computer with a scsi
card.

Thanks for help

Michael Marder

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Feb 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/5/00

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>

I'm using Iomega's PCMCIA-->USB card for a 250MB zip drive. Everything
appears at first to work. Unfortunately, I find that for large files
transferred to the disk, some sort of binary garbage regularly finds its
way in and corrupts things, so I can't yet use the zip disk for backup as I
intended. Buffering problem? I can't tell, and would be curious to know if
anyone else is having a similar problem. Small text files transfer with no
problem, and file sizes are correct.

I created a Linux partition on the disk and ran mkfs, since I had even
worse problems with the
original FAT16 partition.

From cardctl config I get

Socket 1:
Vcc = 5.0, Vpp1 = 0.0, Vpp2 = 0.0
Interface type is memory and I/O
IRQ 10 is exclusive, level mode, enabled
Function 0:
Config register base = 0x0400
Option = 0x41, status = 0000, pin = 0000, copy = 0000
I/O window 1: 0x0100 to 0x010f, auto sized

and from cardctl info,
Socket 1:
product info: "Iomega", "PCMCIA to 16 bit ATAPI Adapter"
function: 4 (fixed disk)

Andrew Scutt

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Feb 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/6/00

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Zip drives under Linux are best handled as SCSI devices, it avoids the data
corruption problems.
Read the howto :-)

So the zip is a USB, which is going through a PCMCIA converter yes? I only
ask as I have a USB zip and have yet to find a way to use it under Linux.

Scutty

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Inventor

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Feb 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/6/00

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Latest kernal is supposed to have full support of USB. Hope so, got a
Visionare 6100 scanner i'd like to use soon. I have a 10 gig IBM drive in a
K-6-400, and with Deluxe Commander have Windows '98, 2000, and SusE Linux
all on the same box. Yep, it took some fancy two steps to do but the
Commander keeps all happy.

Inventor.

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Mike Marder

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Feb 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/6/00

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Andrew Scutt wrote:

> Zip drives under Linux are best handled as SCSI devices, it avoids the data
> corruption problems.
> Read the howto :-)
>
> So the zip is a USB, which is going through a PCMCIA converter yes? I only
> ask as I have a USB zip and have yet to find a way to use it under Linux.
>
> Scutty

Well, apart from the corruption problems (which I'll try to sort out with your
advice) it looks as if the
PCMCIA card works. Costs about $70, and has the advantage that it provides
power to the drive and cuts down on the number of wires to carry on trips.

Michael Marder

Hamid Misnan

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Feb 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/7/00

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On Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:09:18 GMT, Inventor wrote:
>Latest kernal is supposed to have full support of USB. Hope so, got a
>Visionare 6100 scanner i'd like to use soon. I have a 10 gig IBM drive in a
>K-6-400, and with Deluxe Commander have Windows '98, 2000, and SusE Linux
>all on the same box. Yep, it took some fancy two steps to do but the
>Commander keeps all happy.

If you cannot wait for the 2.4 to come out, check www.linux-usb.org for a
backport of USB codes inside 2.3.39 backported to 2.2.14. I couldn't get my UHCI
to work, tho with the old codes it work ok.. something about IRQ is not
assigned.

Paul Vojta

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Feb 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/7/00

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In article <389d...@195.34.192.13>,

Andrew Scutt <scu...@publiconline.co.uk> wrote:
>
>So the zip is a USB, which is going through a PCMCIA converter yes? I only
>ask as I have a USB zip and have yet to find a way to use it under Linux.
>
>Scutty

I have a USB Zip 250 and it works fine under Linux. It didn't work under
kernel 2.3.40, but it works like a charm under 2.3.42.

--Paul Vojta, vo...@math.berkeley.edu
--
Paul Vojta, vo...@math.berkeley.edu

Andrew Scutt

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Feb 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/7/00

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Ah, you're using the 2.3.xxx series, the development ones!!! I'm still
running the stable 2.2.xxx, I'm going to wait as 2.4.xxx is due in weeks and
will support USB fine.

Cheers for the reply
Scutty

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Hamid Misnan

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Feb 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/8/00

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On 7 Feb 2000 11:13:07 -0800, Paul Vojta wrote:
>In article <389d...@195.34.192.13>,
>Andrew Scutt <scu...@publiconline.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>So the zip is a USB, which is going through a PCMCIA converter yes? I only
>>ask as I have a USB zip and have yet to find a way to use it under Linux.
>>
>>Scutty
>
>I have a USB Zip 250 and it works fine under Linux. It didn't work under
>kernel 2.3.40, but it works like a charm under 2.3.42.

There're lots of USB code changes between 2.3.40/41/42. They've reorg the codes
and even the filenames too. I'm still waiting for LS-120 to be supported and the
latest from the developer, they just got the protocol specs from Imation and
will put in the code later on since there're more important things to fix before
2.4 coming out.

- Actually, Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi.