Zip: what does that mean?

Zip: what does that mean?

[Gregoire Favre]

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Hello,

I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see:
Jun 11 23:52:35 greg sudo:     greg : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/greg ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/e2fsck /dev/hdc
Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =
5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel:  hdc: unknown partition table
Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512
sector size, 2941 rpm
Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =
5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel:  hdc: unknown partition table

Could someone explain me what's wrong?

I can access then the disk without the smallest problem.

It's with all my self compiled kernel... (2.4.n and 2.4.n-acm).

Thanks,

	Greg
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Re: Zip: what does that mean?

[Philipp Matthias Hahn]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote:

> I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see:
>
> Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =
> 5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
> Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel:  hdc: unknown partition table
> Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512
> sector size, 2941 rpm
>
> Could someone explain me what's wrong?
Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known
partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this.

When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive.
Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read
and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical
100MB zip media.

BYtE
Philipp
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Re: Zip: what does that mean?

[Gregoire Favre]

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:

> Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known
> partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this.
> 
> When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive.
> Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read
> and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical
> 100MB zip media.

Thanks for your answer, in fact, there was a media in my zip, but
without any partition (as I don't see any other reason than avoiding
those errors messages to make just one partition on my disk).

Thanks,
 
	Greg
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Re: Zip: what does that mean?

[Joshua Jore]

Greg,
Just to make a point on that, as I recall Zip and other super floppy media
*shouldn't* be partitioned. It's certainly possible to do but it's
anyone's guess on how different OS+revs will treat it.

Josh

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
>
> > Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known
> > partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this.
> >
> > When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive.
> > Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read
> > and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical
> > 100MB zip media.
>
> Thanks for your answer, in fact, there was a media in my zip, but
> without any partition (as I don't see any other reason than avoiding
> those errors messages to make just one partition on my disk).
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Greg
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