[ale] Zip drive wierdness

[George Gallen]

Just a thought, but if true, I would suspect it would affect
other parts of the system, but, which draws more power, the
old motherboard or the new motherboard? Could the power supply
be just on the edge of maximum wattage, and the drive isn't
spinning at full speed? But I'd think this would cause more
erratic problems. This would affect any drive that were placed
in the machine and then not affect the same drive in another
machine with adequate available power.

George


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott [mailto:sts at minitower.gtri.gatech.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:24 AM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] Zip drive wierdness
>
>
>Howdy
>
>I think you missed the Q.  
>
>A) He takes zip media that works in one box but not in his
>new and improved box.
>
>B) The two drives test good in a third box and the media
>work in a 3rd box.
>
>
>sts
>
>----- Forwarded message from Josh Freeman 
><josh.freeman at arch.gatech.edu> -----
>
>
>Zips mount funny. They want to be mounted as /dev/hdx4. If you mount
>them on /dev/hdx1, the will not be readable elsewhere. Go figure
>
>Robert Stickel wrote:
>> 
>> ALEers,
>> 
>> We have an old Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) system with an ATA Zip drive.
>> Everything was installed and working normally on a 
>Pentium-Pro mobo.  We
>> recently swapped out the mobo for an AMD K6-2 board and 
>everything still
>> works except the Zip.  We can format, read and write on the problem
>> system but can't exchange disks with any other box (i.e. 
>disks that work
>> on other boxen show up as having bad partition tables, etc on the
>> problem box and vice versa).  It doesn't seem to be a drive 
>problem - we
>> have swapped out the drive with one known to work and tried 
>both primary
>> and secondary IDE controllers (hdb, hdd) with the same results.
>> 
>> Anybody seen anything like this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --bob
>> 
>> Robert Stickel
>> rstickel at mindspring.com
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