[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems with internal Zip drive

[Bug Hunter]

  run an lsmod command and see if it shows the ide-scsi module, which 
emulates scsi devices using ide devices.

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Scott Denlinger wrote:

> > On my Mandrake systems, the internal ZIP is mounted as a SCSI device 
> > with the ide-scsi module.  It is invoked in LILO and instructs the 
> > kernel to load the module and from there the Mount command uses 
> > /dev/sda as the mount point (per my /etc/fstab)
> >
> > So your IDE Zip should be seen as a SCSI device on newer distros.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > keVIn
> 
> 
> I'm using Debian Woody with a 2.4.19 kernel. If it were really mountable 
> as a SCSI device, would my kernel be telling me that it recognizes it as 
> 'hdd'? I thought entries under '/dev' which begin with 'h' means that 
> the device is *not* a SCSI device. If it were a SCSI device, wouldn't I 
> see some kind of entry like '/dev/sd*'? I don't have any SCSI hardware 
> in my system.
>