[Bug 7207] Improving ZIP drive support

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------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-03-05 18:00 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> I epxerienced many issues with ZIP drives in Warty, and the Array 6 shows that
> not much has improved, so I thought I would list the problems, if anyone of them
> can be fixed before final release, then great, and hopefully it will all be
> sorted for Hoary+1
> 
> Okay here goes. This applies to my external 100MB drive on parallel port, but I
> experienced similar issues when I using an internal IDE 100MB drive.
> 
> 1) 'ppa' module not loaded

This driver is only used for parallel port devices, so I don't expect that you
had this problem with your IDE model.
I don't think that parallel-attached devices can be reliably autodetected, so I
don't think this will go away (though parallel port hardware will).

> 2) 'sda4' device not created

This seems to overlap/conflict with 4)

> 3) Entry in fstab not created

This is not a bug; entries are not created in fstab dynamically.  Mounting is
accomplished using pmount.

> Once this is done by hand, then the following problems appear during use :
> 
> 4) if there is no disc in the drive when the machine is booting, then it won't
> mount discs, it will complain that the sda4 device doens't exist, eventhough it
> is there. You have to unload then reload the 'ppa' module, to fix it ("modprobe
> -r ppa" then "modprobe ppa")

Apparently the partition table is not being re-read when the disc is changed;
this may or may not be fixable depending on the capabilities of the device.

> 5) When you insert a disc, it doesn't get mounted automatically, and once
> mounted, it doesn't pop-up a nautilus window to show the content, like it does
> for CDs, despite the settings in "System->Preferences->Removeable Drives and
Media".

Later, you say that this happens sometimes, but not reliably.  Check
~/.xsession-errors in all cases.

> 6) Once mounted, the text under the ZIP icon says "zip0" (reference to the mount
> point I guess), instead of displaying the volume name, like for data CDs. If the
> ZIP has no label it could just display something like "Zip Drive 1:
> Unidentified" or  "Zip Drive 1: No Name", or something like that, anything but
> "zip0"...

A cosmetic issue at best; let's consider the larger problems first.

> 7) when you right-clik on the ZIP disk icon and select "Eject", it will unmount
> the disk properly, but it will not eject the disk. You have to either press the
> button on the drive, or type "eject /dev/sda4" in a terminal. When doing the
> same on a CD, the CD does eject fine, not just unmount.

So eject from the command line works reliably, but ejecting from the desktop
does not?

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