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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 1998 23:29:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ATAPI Zip drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980328232514.15227B-100000@austral>

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I downloaded 2.2.6-RELEASE, and upgraded my 2.2.1 system with no
trouble - the /etc/fstab changes are handled very well.  Everything
seems to work well, with the exception of my Iomega Zip 100MB ATAPI
drive.

My second IDE controller has a CD-ROM as master, and the Zip drive
as slave.  They are both detected at boot time,as below:

wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A>
wd0: 406MB (832608 sectors), 826 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <NEC Corporation DSE1700A>
wd1: 1627MB (3332448 sectors), 3306 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <MATSHITA CR-583/1.05>, removable, accel, dma,
iordis
wcd0: 1378Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable
tray
wcd0: 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked
wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <IOMEGA  ZIP 100       ATAPI/23.D>, removable, intr,
iordis
wfd0: medium type unknown (no disk)  ## There WAS a disk in it! ##
wfd0: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit set
ie0: unknown board_id: f000

I rebuilt the kernel with the following:

options		ATAPI		#Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
options		ATAPI_STATIC	#Don't do it as an LKM
device		wcd0	#IDE CD-ROM
device          wfd0    #Iomega Zip drive

When I attempt to mount either the CD-ROM or the ZIP drive, mount
hangs, and I have to interrupt it with ctrl-C.  If I do this
a second time, the system crashes.  (X stops.  Attempts to
log on through another tty don't work - characters entered after
the login prompt just get echoed to the screen.  It is big red
switch time!)

If I disconnect the CD-ROM and make the Zip drive the master,
things seems a tiny bit better.  When I attempt a disklabel, I get:

/home/mike% disklabel -r -w wfd0 auto
disklabel: /dev/rwfd0c: Undefined error: 0
The light on the drive blinks once.

mount -t msdos /dev/wfd0 /mnt  doesn't work either.

There was a disk in the drive at all times.  Both drives
work under Win95, to my distress.

Any suggestions, please?  2.2.6 doesn't seem much better to me than 2.2.5
for handling this drive.





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