Arghh,
Well, it almost works.
The HD is master, CDROM is slave on the first EIDE0, the Zip drive is master
on EIDE1.
Fsys.eide eide -a170 & recognized the ZIP drive.
Dosfsys & mounts the floppy as /dos/a, zip as dos/b seemingly Ok
I can read the contents of /dos/a just fine.
A cd /dos/b ( with a good zip disk ) gives me a ‘bad directory’ message
although the activity light illuminates so I know it is at least looking
for something )
Ah well, will poke around some more…
Walt
“Mario Charest” postmaster@127.0.0.1 wrote in message
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Hi Mario,
Yeah, kinda’ stupid. Anyway, I put the ZIP drive on the secondary IDE
and
set it as master and now I can at least recognize it. Started the
Fsys.eide
for -a170 and interrupt 15, got Dosfsys to create /dos/a ( floppy) and
/dos/b for the zip. I think I have to tell Fsys.floppy that fd1 is
using
irq 15.
No Fsys.floppy is for floppy drive only. Fsys.eide will deal with the
device ZIP drive.
how it turned out!.. Wanna’ buy a cable! :-/
Walt
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Thanks Mario,
First, sorry about my incorrect reply EMail address.
The HD, CD and ZIP are all on the same cable. The HD is set as
master,
the
CD is slave and so is the ZIP drive. Fsys does not see the ZIP
drive.
My
partner in crime here ( the driver guru ) is unavailable for 3 weeks
and
thought I could figure it out < grin
I would never though of asking someone if they connected 3 devices on
a
IDE,
cable. First time I ever heard of somebody doing that, lol!
Where did you get that cable???
Walt
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My system needs a HD and CD plus a floppy and a ZIP drive. The
QNX
knowlege
base is a little unclear. The floppy and ZIP are DOS
filesystems.
The
CDROM
is set as a slave and looks like the ZIP needs to be a second
slave?
Is
this where the CS -cable select - is this possible?
W/O the CDROM, I can start the Dosfsys -s and it mounts as
/dos/a
and
/dos/b
which is the expected behaviour. Since I start Fsys.eide first
before
the
Fsys.floppy, the ZIP drive looks like /dos/a and the floppy as
/dos/b -
whickh is Ok.
With the CDROM attached, the Dosfsys fails to recognize the ZIP
drive.
Hmmm.
What am I missing. It’s an iomega, EIDE unit.
Look at the back of the unit (either CDROM or ZIP) there should be
jumpers
to set slave/master mode.
One needs to be master and the other one slave, doesn’t matter
which
is
which.
I had bad experience with cable select mode, i tried to avoid it.
Walt
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