FAO Ubuntu team : ZIP drive nightmare ! :o(

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Hello,
> 	I have a zip drive on a Redhat enterprise linux system and in order for
> it to work a disk has to be present during the boot sequence.

THANK YOU !!!  I just tried that, rebooted the machine 3 times, with and
without the disk in the drive. You are 100% correct, it NEEDS to have a
disk in it !
Weird. I hope this will be fixed for Hoary. I mean this has to be a bug.
It's a remoaveable media drive, the system can't possibly require a
media to be present in order to work, or, this would mean it's a fixed
drive not a removeable media !! 

> I don't really recall how I set it up, but I know I have hdd=ide-scsi in the
> grub boot line. 

Does GRUB really has something to do with it ? Sadly I don't know much
about GRUB, I wouldn't know what to do with this 'hdd=ide-scsi' line :o(

> I don't use the zip and often forget when it is rebooted, very rarely.

Yep, don't use it often either, which is why it is annoying when it
doesn't work, because the rare times I want it to work, usually I REALLY
need it to work, so I am REALLY p****d that it does NOT work ! :-/

Now on to less important, albeit still annoying, issue : it won't eject
the disk ! Had a similar problem yesterday, because the disk was not
unmounted. But this time it IS cleanly unmounted, so *should* be able to
eject...but no, the ejection button on the drive doesn't work... need to
turn it off and on again :o(

So again, some polishing work is in order the ZIP dept. for Hoary... :-/


Regards,

Vince, getting there.....very slowly !