[Hal] [Fwd: pocket zip aka clik drive.]

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:20 -0500, Steev wrote:
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> - -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: pocket zip aka clik drive.
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:23:35 -0500
> From: Steev <steev at steev.net>
> To: hal at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> Hey all, I have a Pocket Zip aka Clik! drive from Iomega.  It is a
> pcmcia sorta floppy zip disk type thing, it uses ide-cs.  Hal doesn't
> recognize it at all.

What version of hal? What distro?

> 
> If I open the hal device manager, it has the following to say about it.
> 
> In the tree view - Unknown Device
> The advanced tab says
> info.bus 	string		pcmcia
> info.parent	string	/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_104c_ac1d
> info.udi	string	/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pcmcia__1__1
> linux.hotplug_type	int	1 (0x1)
> linux.subsystem	string	pcmcia
> linux.sysfs_path	string	/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/1.0
> linux.sysfs_path_device string  same as above
> pcmcia.socket_number	int	1 (0x1)
> 
> The device when ide-cs is loaded creates hde and hde{1,10}  where hde4
> is always the mountable partition.  I have tried adding this to my
> fstab, but it seems that hal doesn't even read that at all, anymore (not
> using fstab-sync, using hal/pmount-hal/pmount/gnome-volume-manager.

What is the output of /sys/block/hde?

> Is this a known issue?

Sort-of.. ide-cs is a pain in since it cannot be polled due to the fact
that PCMCIA disks doesn't have any concept of media changed (synchronous
or asynchronous). There's some discussion here

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130232

So we get to play some pretty ugly tricks to get this to work for the
common case which is PCMCIA card readers (e.g. compact flash). It should
work though... so...

If you can get it, it would be useful to get the output of 'hald
--retain-privileges --daemon=no --verbose=yes' just after you insert the
device with media in... 

Thanks,
David