Hi Andre.
> You can not query an IDE-FLOPPY (ATAPI Zip or LS120) for
> capacity with out media :-(
How about with media present? I get that message when trying to
MOUNT a ZipDisk, in each case WITH media present...
> hdg: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdg: 123264kB, 246528 blocks, 512 sector size, , DMA
> hdg: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm
> No media
> hdg: The drive reports both 126222336 and 0 bytes as its capacity
> hdh: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdh: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> hdh: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> No media
> hdh: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
Fairy Nuff. I'd expect that in that case anyway. What I don't
understand is getting that "drive reports both" message when the
media is actually present as well...
>>> I have some problems with ATAPI Zip drive: When loading
>>> ide-floppy.o or fdisk or ... always the following is
>>> reported:
>>> Q> "The drives reports both ..... and ...... byts capacity"
>>> where the numbers are different. Then neither fdisk nor
>>> mke2fs works.
>>> I use 2.2.14.
>> I see this with my ATAPI Zip-250 under 2.2.12, but fdisk,
>> mke2fs, etc, all work there.
>> ALAN: You will probably remember my commenting on seeing the
>> above message to you a while back. Any idea what might have
>> changed since to cause this?
>> Incidentally, when I put a Zip-100 disk in the drive, the two
>> values are approximately 250M and approximately 100M
>> resspectively, and when I put a Zip-250 in, they are DIFFERENT
>> numbers, but both approx 250M. I can't check the exact numbers
>> at the moment as the relevant box is down following a hard
>> drive crash...
>>> Please CC: to me, since I am not subscribed. Thanks a lot.
>> NP.
Best wishes from Riley.
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