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Greetings!
I recently obtained a scsi zip drive and a buncha disks, so I went out
and bought one of those Zip Zoom cards (it was cheap) ...and to make a
long story short, I set it up (I think I did it right!), but alas, it
didn't work right.  So, two days later, I come to you guys for help.
this is what I get when I boot:
...
aha152x: processing commandline: ok
detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: L.27
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
sda : extended sense code = 3
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
...
Partition check:
 sda:scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 6, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00
10 00
extra data not valid Current error sd08:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Defect list not found
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
...

From my understanding, the "READ CAPACITY failed" message happens when
there is no disk in the drive...but of course I have a disk in the drive.
If any of this information is in a FAQ or howto that I missed, please
point me in the right direction.  Thanks.

Cheers!
-Tim

Quote:> Greetings!
> I recently obtained a scsi zip drive and a buncha disks, so I went out
> and bought one of those Zip Zoom cards (it was cheap) ...and to make a
> long story short, I set it up (I think I did it right!), but alas, it
> didn't work right.  So, two days later, I come to you guys for help.
> this is what I get when I boot:
> ...
> aha152x: processing commandline: ok
> detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
> scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
> scsi : 1 host.
>   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: L.27
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
> sda : extended sense code = 3
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> ...
> Partition check:
>  sda:scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 6, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00
> 10 00
> extra data not valid Current error sd08:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Defect list not found
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
> ...

> From my understanding, the "READ CAPACITY failed" message happens when
> there is no disk in the drive...but of course I have a disk in the drive.
> If any of this information is in a FAQ or howto that I missed, please
> point me in the right direction.  Thanks.

> Cheers!
> -Tim

Perhaps you need to change which partition the system looks at?

regards,
      Alan

--
Alan Fitch

Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent.

[SNIP]

Quote:>scsi : 1 host.
>  Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: L.27
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
>sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
>sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
>sda : extended sense code = 3
>sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>...

Quote:>Partition check:
> sda:scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 6, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00
>10 00
>extra data not valid Current error sd08:00: sense key Medium Error
>Additional sense indicates Defect list not found
>scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
>...

        Are you auto-mounting it at boot?

        I never actually do that, but mount them only when I need to.

Quote:>From my understanding, the "READ CAPACITY failed" message happens when
>there is no disk in the drive...but of course I have a disk in the drive.
>If any of this information is in a FAQ or howto that I missed, please
>point me in the right direction.  Thanks.

        As I've already suggested,  it is possible you have a slightly
        flaky disk / unformatted disk...

        (mine are ext2fs / msdos,  and work okay..)

        Hope this helps,

        Mark.
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