[Bug 7207] Improving ZIP drive support

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------- Additional Comments From vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr  2005-09-27 05:16 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Can this bug be confirmed against latest breezy or Colony 5?

Okay, I dug out my zip drives. Result : a complete disaster !!! I thought it was
bad enough in Wart/Hoary, but with (up to date of course) Breezy, it looks like
alph software, like ZIP drives were a revolutionary device that hit the market
on ly 3 days ago, and for which the Linux community was nt prepared.
It is truly appaling. I fought with both drives (100MB parport external, and
100MB ATAPI internal) for an hour, taking notes, then as everything was going so
wrong, I stopped taking notes as it became useless. I hope Dapper Drake will
rectifiy the situation, I am willing to help/test of course, just drop me a mail
when something needs testing/evaluating.

Here are some notes from my testing...

External 100MB Parallel Port Drive
-----------------------------
(Booted with no disk in drive.)
Drive not recognized.
Loading the 'ppa' module by hand (and putting it in etc/modules at the same
time) creates the /dev/sda device corresponding to the drive, but no drive icon
will show up in the 'computer' place.
I insert a disk: /dev/sda4 not created. I run "cfdisk /dev/sda", and it can see
the partition. Exit cfdisk.. oh miracle, /dev/sda4 is now visible at the CLI.
The disk was no auto-mounted. Typing by hand the CLI : "pmount /dev/sda4
Zip_External does create an icon, and I can browse the partition with Nautilus.
However, the icon represents a standard/generic disk drive icon, not the
usual/required/expecte, and very good looking ZIP disk icon.
When right-clicking on the icon, there is an option to unmount, but no option to
eject. Unmount works, however ejecting (using 'eject /dev/sda' at the CLI) does
not work, though no error is reported.


Internal ATAPI 100MB drive
--------------------------
Booted with no disk in the drive.

There is an icon for the drive, in the 'Computer place', but it won't the disk
when inserted.
I loaded the module 'ide-floppy', but still won't mount the disk.
If I create a mount point manually, and mount if at the CLI, it does mount the
partition/disk, and I can access it at the CLI, but if I try to double-click on
the drive icon, it says : "Error: special device /dev/hdd4 does not exist".
Reboot the machine with the disk in the drive.
I can now double click on the icon and it will mount the disk and I can browse
it with Nautilus. However, mounting the disk, and reading/accessing it, is
rather slower than it used to be in Hoary/Warty, for no apparent reason.
If I right-click on the icon, I have an option to 'Eject', which unmounts the
disk, but will not actually eject it.  Using 'eject' at CLI doesn't work either,
nor does pressing the eject button on the drive itself !


At this point I could feel I was starting to go slightly mad, so I decided to
put a stop to it before I go get a sledge hammer ;-) :-/

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