Newbie: Lost interrupt with Zip-100 drive

[Edwin Lim]

Howdy!

I've just tried my first RH 7 (kernel 2.2.16) installation. I used the
GUI setup, selected Workstation with Auto partitioning, selected Gnome,
KDE and Games (I wanna try'em all! =) ...

On the first boot I encountered the dreaded:

"hdc: hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: lost interrupt"
<repeat ad nausem>

My system setup:
Gateway 2000
Pentium 200Mhz MMX
64 MB SDRAM
Primary Master: 3 GB HDD (1GB Win98SE FAT32, 2GB reserved for Linux)
Secondary Master: Iomega ZIP-100 drive
Secondary Slave: TOSHIBA 12x CD-ROM
ATI Rage II Pro
Some ethernet card (not really sure, but no big issue for now)
Some ISA Creative sound card

After plunging into the newsgroup archives (aka Google Groups) I found
out that I need to leave a Zip disk inside.

BINGO, problem solved, installation went on smoothly (I left the Zip disk
in the drive)... or is it?

Anyway according to some advice on an article, I tried disabling the Auto
detection of the Zip drive in my BIOS. Also PNP OS setting was set to
"No". Buuuuut - didn't help much.

Also, I removed the line:
/dev/zip /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner 0 0

from the fstab. Didnt' do much.

How do I check if the drive is ATAPI or IDE? (According to the original
BIOS auto config, this Zip drive is a ATAPI Removable Zip Drive).

Windows 98 runs fine so it's not a hardware issue.

Any way I can stop the kernel from auto-mounting the drive?

Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Signing off,
Edwin Lim

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"Edwin Lim" <lim.737@osu.edu> wrote in message
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> Any way I can stop the kernel from auto-mounting the drive?

Try taking the disc out of the drive?


Stan

[Jean-David Beyer]

\"MIDIcian\" (tm) wrote:

> "Edwin Lim" <lim.737@osu.edu> wrote in message
> news:Xns93F0E7157127Climedcisohiostateedu@164.107. 115.4...
>

>>Any way I can stop the kernel from auto-mounting the drive?

>
>
> Try taking the disc out of the drive?
>
>

The O.P. said:

> On the first boot I encountered the dreaded:
>
> "hdc: hdc: lost interrupt
> hdc: lost interrupt"
> <repeat ad nausem>
>

> After plunging into the newsgroup archives (aka Google Groups) I found
> out that I need to leave a Zip disk inside.

So one question to ask might be: does he need to keep a Zip disk in the
drive just to install, or to boot even? Why should the O.P. even need a
disk in a zip drive to install, since, AFAIK, Linux distributions do not
come on zip drives (though, of course, I could be wrong about that).

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[David]

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

>
> So one question to ask might be: does he need to keep a Zip disk in the
> drive just to install, or to boot even? Why should the O.P. even need a
> disk in a zip drive to install, since, AFAIK, Linux distributions do not
> come on zip drives (though, of course, I could be wrong about that).

I have never had to leave a disk in the drive to do an install
but it is connected to /dev/hdd and the disk was seen as
/dev/hdd4 until it was repartitioned and formatted to ext2.

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[LinuxGuru]

"MIDIcian" (tm) wrote:

> "Edwin Lim" <lim.737@osu.edu> wrote in message
> news:Xns93F0E7157127Climedcisohiostateedu@164.107. 115.4...
>

>>Any way I can stop the kernel from auto-mounting the drive?

>
>
> Try taking the disc out of the drive?
>
>
> Stan
>
>

1. folks who ask us to only reply to their email, deprive others of the
knowlege obtained through open exchange3 of ideas!

2. Besides removing the media, you could go into /etc/fstab and change
the device to noauto!

3. If you are doing Red Hat, or Mandrake, they usually default upon
install of the system, to use automount, Supermount... turn them off,
or disable them, as you desire...

HTH

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> "MIDIcian" (tm) wrote:

> > "Edwin Lim" <lim.737@osu.edu> wrote in message
> > news:Xns93F0E7157127Climedcisohiostateedu@164.107. 115.4...
> >

> >>Any way I can stop the kernel from auto-mounting the drive?

> >
> >
> > Try taking the disc out of the drive?
> >
> >
> > Stan
> >
> >

> 1. folks who ask us to only reply to their email, deprive others of the
> knowlege obtained through open exchange3 of ideas!
>
> 2. Besides removing the media, you could go into /etc/fstab and change
> the device to noauto!
>
> 3. If you are doing Red Hat, or Mandrake, they usually default upon
> install of the system, to use automount, Supermount... turn them off,
> or disable them, as you desire...
>
> HTH
>