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To: User Gp <gp@tower.my.domain>
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Subject: Re: ppbus problem 
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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 17:44:14 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 02:35:00 -0400
> From: User Gp <gp@tower.my.domain>
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> I 'm trying to install the ppbus stuff for my parallel port
> zip drive. The kernel compiled OK, and it has a lot to say
> about the drive, but fdisk and mount produce no results.
> Here's dmesg. Any ideas.

Can you be more specific about "no results"?  Error messages?  System 
lockup?   

> ppc0 at 0x278 irq 7 on isa
> ppc0: Generic chipset in PS/2 mode
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
> ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
> vpo0: <Adaptec aic7110 scsi> on ppbus 0
> scbus0 at vpo0 bus 0
> sd0 at scbus0 target 6 lun 0
> sd0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.13> type 0 removable SCSI 2
> sd0: Direct-Access 
> sd0: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
> sd0:  Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed
> 862MB (196608 4592 byte sectors)
> vpo0: <Adaptec aic7110 scsi> on ppbus 0
> scbus1 at vpo0 bus 0
> sd1 at scbus1 target 6 lun 0
> sd1: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 D.13> type 0 removable SCSI 2
> sd1: Direct-Access 
> sd1: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry
> 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors)

Actually, this looks pretty ugly; you appear to have detected the vpo0 
device twice.  Do you have one Zip or two connected?

mike