OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Hardware

[Solved] Iomega ZIP 100 IDE

<< < (7/8) > >>

Neil Waldhauer:
Look at the LVM /QUERY output I posted above, disk [ D2 ]

I have a IDE ZIP 250 drive connected via IDE. LVM sees it but won't use it.

DaniS506.ADD sees the drive.


--- Code: ---R1.08.15     /!BIOS
            Daniela's Bus Master IDE Driver for OS/2 Version 1.08.15
Controller:0  Port:01F0 IRQ:0E  Status:OK BusMaster Scatter/Gather
  Intel ICH2 PATA host (8086:244B rev:12) on PCI 0:31.1#0
 Unit:0 Status:OK SMS:16 LBA BusMaster UltraDMA5/PIO4 BPB
  Model:ST3250820ACE                            3.ACD   
   OS2:log   phys   BPB/BIOS   IDE:log   phys     Total Sectors
  C  30401  65535                65535  16383   Avail  488397168
  H    255     16        255        16     16   OS2    488392065
  S     63     63         63        63     63   % Used     99.99
 Unit:1 Status:OK ATAPI BusMaster UltraDMA2/PIO3
  Model:IOMEGA  ZIP 250       ATAPI             41.S   
Controller:1  Port:0170 IRQ:0F  Status:OK
  Intel ICH2 PATA host (8086:244B rev:12) on PCI 0:31.1#1
 Unit:0 Status:OK ATAPI PIO4
  Model:SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-308B                T100   



--- End code ---

Lars:
If the ZIP disk shows up in minilvm (and that seems to be the case) and if a disk is actually inserted, you should be able to create a volume on it. Once that is done, you can leave minilvm and do LVM /rediscoverprm and it should give you a drive letter (maybe only on next boot, can't remember). You should then be able to format the volume.
At least that is how it worked with my parallel port attached ZIP served by PPAOS2.ADD.

Neil Waldhauer:
I would think so, but LVM says the drive is inaccessible, and MiniLVM seems to agree. It shows the little cloud and does not give the option. I think the actual zip disk is formatted HPFS.

Back in the day, DaniS506.ADD didn't need any parameters to access a Zip disk. I wonder what the !BIOS flag does?

Igor:
Hi all,

I checked and in my case 3 empty disks are blanks for USB. If you remove from config.sys сorresponding lines, then these blanks disappear from the system.
However, I never got access to the ZIP drive. And it is not visible in lvm. Although Danis506/danisflt recognizes it.

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on May 14, 2023, 03:16:31 pm ---I would think so, but LVM says the drive is inaccessible, and MiniLVM seems to agree. It shows the little cloud and does not give the option. I think the actual zip disk is formatted HPFS.

Back in the day, DaniS506.ADD didn't need any parameters to access a Zip disk. I wonder what the !BIOS flag does?

--- End quote ---

From the documentation,

--- Code: ---     /!BIOS                                                 (call BIOS
        Disable all BIOS Int13 calls                           if required)

--- End code ---

Could always test without it.
I also see under Unit options,

--- Code: ---     /!RMV                                                  (device default)
        (not) removable media drive

--- End code ---
So perhaps need /RMV for the zip unit?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page