Strange ZIP IDE interactions (was Re: Strange IDE going-ons in 2.3.41)

[Luca Lizzeri]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:32:38PM +0100, Joerg Stroettchen wrote:
> mmhh...
> 
> i had very similar problems with e2fsck-1.1.8:
> 
> e2fsck-1.18 failed to check one single partition (hda3). I finally found that
> the problems occurred when
> 
> 1. during boot no zip-disk was in my zip-drive (hdb)
> 
> and
> 
> 2. the partition which was checked was > 2 GB
> 
> my recent solution is to insert a zip-floppy into hdb before turning power on

Well, that checks, because I too have a zip-floppy slave of the drive having
problems (on hdd). 

I don't recall if I had or not a disk in the drive, but even if it was empty,
I don't think requring users to have a disk in the zip drive would cut it :)

Thanks,
	Luca

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