Currently the only drive which I know some people need new code is the Iomega Clik! driveĬontrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be an expert programmer to help make Linux better. Only if you have hardware for which support is under development do you need to download any source code. If you are running a kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.17 that was supplied from your distribution (RedHat, Slackware etc) and you get lots of errors when you run make compiling ide-floppy.c, you need to find the line in ide-floppy.c that says #include "ide.h" What you need to do depends on your booting method, but basically, in either /etc/nf or /boot/grub/menu.lst where you append the line hdx=ide-scsi
I have seen in some newsgroups the advice that you simply cannot run an ide-floppy device and the ide-scsi emulation needed to make CD-RW drives writeable at the same time. Using a CD-RW and an IDE Floppy device simultaneously
Note that superdisks use the entire device by default and not a partition (unlike Zip drives above). Where hdc is the device your drive is found as, and /mnt/floppy is where you normally mount ls120 disks. The syntax for mounting a windows-formatted (or new) LS-120 disk is mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/floppy The 4 above is really important as ZIP disks are formatted as partition 4. Where hdc is the device your drive is found as,Īnd /mnt/zip is where you normally mount zip disks The syntax for mounting a windows-formatted (or new) Zip disk is mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Likewise if it doesn’t work feel free to contact me for advice. Note to manufacturers – if you have a new device and it works please let me know. PCMCIA Iomega Clik!/PocketZip – see my Clik!/PocketZip mini-HOWTO.Kernels 2.2.18 and up, 2.4.9 and up, and all useable 2.6.x versions include click! support. There are no recent new ATAPI floppy devices. This driver does not deal with USB drives, parallel port drives or SCSI drives, only ATAPI drives that plug in to your IDE controller. Not much at the moment, but hang in there. Here you will find documentation about the ide-floppy driver in the linux kernel.
You will find the up to date version of this document at If you want to know more about me click on the “about me” link at the top of this page. My portable linux development system is the reason I got into this driver stuff – the Clik! drive didn’t work when I got it. Please note that for me, this is very much a part-time effort and often I am travelling so it may sometimes be a few days before you get a response. My name is Paul Bristow and I am/was (no new ATAPI devices for a while now) the maintainer of the ide-floppy driver for the linux kernel. The IDE-Floppy Driver Documentation for Linux Who am I and what is this all about?
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