Reposting - Zip drive I/O errors.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

I`m reposting this to see if anyone can come back with some answers for
me...it`s beginning to do my nut.

If no one can help, do you know anyone (LUGs or otherwise) that can?

 Cheers.

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 Hi again guys...

 I`ve just been tidying up all the programs and .rpms I`ve downloaded
recently, and have tar.gz'd the lot.

 ls -sh reports the file as 52Mb - so figured I throw it onto a ext2
formatted zip. I`m using the parport zipdrive with the imm kernel module
(built-in).

 After 20Mb (tried dumping a load of mp3s - managed 7Mb) or so the I get
this in /var/log/messages:

Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
36824 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6
lun 0 return code = 27010000 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
36826 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6
lun 0 return code = 27010000 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
36828 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6
lun 0 return code = 27010000 
Mar 21 12:23:44 shaitan kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
36830

 and so on.

There is also the occasional:

Mar 21 12:45:47 shaitan kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=14, block=6

 The drive continues to access, ignoring attempts to umount or eject,
even although cp has reported a `no space on device` and quits.

 The drive and drives aren`t all that old.

 I`ve attempted to start a fresh with one disk...repartitioning
(/dev/sda1) and reformatting.

 No joy.
 
 Here`s the line out of /etc/fstab:

 /dev/sda1       /mnt/zip        ext2    noauto,rw,user,sync            
0 0

 Anyone know what`s going on?

 Baz. 
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Barrie J. Bremner

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