Can't get Suse to see USB Zip drive
Suse 9.1 loads just about everything automatically, but my USB Zip 250 drive is invisible to it. I've googled a fair bit and tried various solutions but I'm not getting anywhere.
Firstly, I guess I have to find out where the drive is. (The system sees it, because it whirrs on startup.) Here's the results of cat /proc/diskstats. Code:
linux:/home/rollo # cat /proc/diskstats Code:
linux:/home/rollo # mount -t auto /dev/sda4 /media/zip Help really appreciated. |
Do you get any information from 'dmesg' after plugging-in the drive?
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Thanks abisko for your reply - I appreciate your help.
Yes, 'dmesg' produces the following: Code:
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 |
The Suse page for this peripheral is here.
Its instructions involve doing a 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' in order to find the correct order of the SCSI devices. Unfortunately I get this: Code:
linux:/home/rollo # cat /proc/scsi/scsi here and it's not very reassuring... Thanks again for help. |
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usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Code:
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 I'd also suggest to screen /var/log/boot.msg for USB related messages. Does your system recognise other USB devices? |
Thanks for the latest help.
I only have one other USB device (a card reader which I haven't yet tried to make work with Linux) - 'dmesg' gives this: Code:
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 /var/log/boot.msg turns up no mention of USB, except: Code:
<notice>start services (coldplug) Thanks for the APIC lead - although I'm getting a bit out of my depth here! There's a line at the top of the /var/log/boot.msg file which says: Code:
<6>ACPI: local apic disabled Thanks again for your help. I'm determined to make this thing work! Apart from anything else, I have data on backup Zip disks that I need to access... |
It really appears to be a general hardware problem. My cardreader creates device nodes for every slot. When you type 'lsmod', do you see the usb drivers loaded (usbcore, uhci-hcd, ehci-hcd, usbstorage)? And if not, can you load them with modprobe and attach the device again? There is an issue with USB2: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/01/USB_2_0.html
You may also find other USB realted hints in this database. |
Loaded the suggested modules with modprobe, but this made no difference. Will investigate the APIC suggestion.
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2. Which is the config file to modify in order to get these modules (usbcore, uhci-hcd, ehci-hcd, usb-storage) to load on boot? Thanks again. :) |
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Tried all the APIC kernel options - NOAPIC, NOLAPIC, APIC, LAPIC. This didn't affect the:
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spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 Then, when I tried starting in Suse's 'failsafe' mode (lots of other kernel options), I got this: Code:
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 29 I'm going to test for the 'spurious interrupt' message with peripherals removed. Will post results. |
Compac's initial implementation of USB 1.1 was pre standards and incompatible with the resulting standard. Only Compac USB devices worked with it. My Compac was a 4770 Presario and I don't know which model was the first to have a standards compliant USB. With the 4770 there is no way to disable the motherboard USB, preventing you from using an USB PCI module.
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Possible Compaq kernel issue
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Thanks to both of you again for your ideas and help. |
Anyone?
Does anyone have any ideas on this? I still can't access my Zip drive and things are getting desperate - I have to replace my printer and it seems that new printers don't come with parallel ports...
The USB port worked fine under windows, so I don't think Fragos's comments are correct for my machine after all. Ideas?... |
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