[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems with internal Zip drive

[Scott Denlinger]

I have an internal Zip drive which I can't mount. It is the secondary 
device on my secondary IDE channel. On bootup, the kernel seems to 
recognize that it's there, but there are no files for it in '/dev'. When 
I was using an older kernel, it was mountable as '/dev/hdd4', but now 
that I've compiled a new kernel, there are no entries in '/dev' at all 
for '/dev/hdd'. Here is a grepped excerpt from my '/var/log/messages' 
file which shows that the drive seems to be recognized.

[. . .] kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1040-0x1047, BIOS settings: 
hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[. . .] kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1048-0x104f, BIOS settings: 
hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
[. . .] kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS20.5, ATA DISK drive
[. . .] kernel: hdb: Maxtor 90432D3, ATA DISK drive
[. . .] kernel: hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[. . .] kernel: hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
[. . .] kernel: hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, 
CHS=2498/255/63, UDMA(33)
[. . .] kernel: hdb: 8440992 sectors (4322 MB) w/256KiB Cache, 
CHS=8374/16/63, UDMA(33)
[. . .] kernel: hdc: ATAPI 212X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[. . .] kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 
2941 rpm

Here is the output of a 'ls -l /dev/hd*' command:

[. . .] /dev/hda -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
[. . .] /dev/hda1 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
[. . .] /dev/hda2 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
[. . .] /dev/hda3 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
[. . .] /dev/hdb -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
[. . .] /dev/hdb1 -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
[. . .] /dev/hdc -> ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

Based on the output from the 'ls' command, I am assuming that '/dev/hdd' 
should show up something like 'ide/host0/bus1/target1', since its the 
secondary device on the secondary IDE channel, but there isn't an entry 
like that.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Scott Denlinger