Re: Zip: what does that mean?

Philipp Matthias Hahn (pmhahn@titan.lahn.de)
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:40:57 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote:

> I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see:
>
> Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =
> 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
> Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: unknown partition table
> Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512
> sector size, 2941 rpm
>
> Could someone explain me what's wrong?
Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known
partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this.

When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive.
Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read
and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical
100MB zip media.

BYtE
Philipp

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