I need to get a usb zip100 working. I had it working but I had to reinstall Mandrake 8.1 and now it doesn't want to be mounted. I use usbview to see what usb devices are installed(plugged in) and the zip drive shows up. When this device was working it was /dev/sda4. I tried to put it onto this device but the device does not exist in /dev/ . I found several sites that mention scsi support is needed and at the time I installed andrake I clicked no to scsi-support? but my cd-rw uses scsi emulation. I used a X program to check the kernal configuration and the scsi stuff is check so I guess it is installed. Do I have to add a line to lilo similar to the one for my scsi drive. I will post thje lilo.conf when I'm on my computer and anything else that who would like to see.
One other thing, not too important but what does:
"PCI: device 00:1f.1 not avilable due to hardware conflict"
mean. The computer works exect the USB zip.

Thanks,
Jarin Scott

pull out and plug in your usb drive and run "dmesg" and look for error messages.

You may also need scsi disk or generic support.

Sorry it took so long my iternet computer is not working.

Here's a piece of dmesg.

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
block: queued sectors max/low 163872kB/54624kB, 512 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=24cb
PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
PCI_IDE: chipset revision 1
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddMA
hda: WDC WD400BB-75DEA0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1: unexpected interrupt, status=0x00, count=1
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 78125000 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4863/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX160E Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:30:17 Sep 23 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 3
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x59b/0x31) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x40
0x378: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other means> dma=<none or set by other means>

<For i = 1 to 2 step 1>
devfs: devfs_mk_dir(): existing non-directory entry: "snd"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC0"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC1"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC2"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC3"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC4"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC5"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC6"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/controlC7"
<if i = 2 then exitfor>
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: existing non-directory entry

<next i>
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/timer"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/mixerC0D0"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/pcmC0D0p"
devfs: existing non-directory entry
devfs: devfs_register(): could not create entry: "snd/pcmC0D0c"

usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x59b/0x31) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 3
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x59b/0x31) is not claimed by any active driver.

Last time I got the zip working it was detected by harddrake and was viewable in diskdrake. All
I had to do was add a line to fstab and it worked. Now diskdrake doesn't see it.

Jarin Scott

It appears that you don't have all of the required modules loaded.
Run /sbin/lsmod to see
Check for
usb-storage
scsi-mod
sr-mod

Thanks for the help. I installed usb-storage an dnow the zip drive works. I modprobed the other two and they were not found, but I guess I don't need them for my Zip.

Thanks for the help,

Jarin Scott