{"id":15,"date":"2002-02-24T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2002-02-24T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2002-02-24T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2002-02-24T13:10:37","slug":"clik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/2002\/02\/24\/clik\/","title":{"rendered":"clik!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IOMEGA Clik!\/PocketZip PC Card Drive under Linux<\/h1>\n

\"Clik!<\/p>\n

What is the PC Card PocketZip Drive?\u00c2<\/h2>\n

It’s a 40M removable media drive in the shape of a PCMCIA type II
\ncard.\u00c2 For more information check out
\nIOMEGA’s web site<\/a>, even
\nthough they say it isn’t supported under Linux. Note to readers from
\niomega: you are perfectly welcome to contact me. It has recently been renamed
\nto PocketZip, and the price dropped to $99.<\/p>\n

News<\/h2>\n

Iomega seem to have made a small change in their recent clik
\ndrives<\/strong> which requires a small modification to the driver. If your new clik
\ndrive is not recognised, even though the ide-floppy driver is running you need
\nto make the following change:<\/p>\n

Find the line that says:<\/p>\n

if strcmp(drive->id->model, \"IOMEGA Clik! 40 CZ ATAPI\") == 0)
\n{<\/tt><\/p>\n

and change it to<\/p>\n

if strncmp(drive->id->model, \"IOMEGA Clik\", 11) == 0)
\n{<\/tt><\/p>\n

This should fix the problem.<\/p>\n

Clik! and iPaq.<\/strong>
\n\"ipaq<\/p>\n

Ross Reedstrom sent me this cool picture of his PocketZip drive working
\nin his Compaq iPaq running Linux. Apparently he did have to make a hardware
\nmodification to the sleeve, but the driver “just worked”. However, unlike
\nlaptops, the power supply of the iPaq does notice the drain of the clik!
\ndrive.<\/p>\n

Since kernel 2.2.18 I have been the official ide-floppy maintainer and
\nclik support has been included. If the procedures on this page work for you,
\nplease send me an email<\/a>. If they
\ndon’t work, REALLY send me an email.<\/p>\n

I have created a site at sourceforge <\/a> for
\nbug reports etc. Feel free to drop things in there or just email me directly.<\/p>\n

So how do I make it work under Linux?<\/h2>\n

First of all, you need to be running with
\nkernel version 2.2.14<\/a> or later. Even
\nthis isn’t enough for the drive to just work as there are some functions (like
\neject lock) that simply didn’t fit into a drive only 5mm thick. Then
\nfollow the steps below:<\/p>\n

Choose the version of ide-floppy to match your kernel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
ide-floppy.c<\/a> for
\n2.2.14<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ide-floppy.c<\/a> for
\n2.2.15<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ide-floppy.c<\/a> for
\n2.2.16<\/td>\n		patch<\/a> for
\n2.2.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ide-floppy.c<\/a> for
\n2.2.17*UPDATED<\/span><\/td>\n		patch<\/a> for
\n2.2.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
included in official 2.2.18 onwards<\/td>\nnone needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ide-floppy.c<\/a> for
\n2.4.0-8 onwards<\/td>\n		\u00c2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
included in official 2.4.9<\/td>\nnone needed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Download the ide-floppy.c file (if you take the patch you can work it
\nout) and copy it to your \/usr\/src\/linux\/drivers\/block directory.
\nlogin as
\nroot
\nRecompile the kernel including the<\/p>\n

\u00c2 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m\u00c2 <\/tt><\/p>\n

option to enable IDE Floppy devices to run as a module. Doing it
\nas a module saves the memory when you don’t hves the memory when you don’t have
\nthe card inserted.<\/p>\n

To make life easier and to make it possible to exchange files with PCs
\nrunning other OS’s make sure you have VFAT support enabled in the kernel
\ntoo.<\/p>\n

Use your favourite kernel recompilation method.<\/p>\n

To compile the driver type<\/p>\n

make modules ; make modules_install<\/tt><\/p>\n

If neccessary, reboot<\/p>\n

Make sure the PCMCIA card services package is running.<\/p>\n

cardmgr<\/tt><\/p>\n

Go to a virtual console screen (i.e. not X, you can leave X running)<\/p>\n

Insert the Clik! PC Card, with a disk inside it.
\nYou should see
\nsomething like…<\/p>\n

ide1 at 0x180-0x187, 0x386 on irq 15 hdc: hdc4
\nhdc: hdc4<\/tt><\/p>\n

This is great! Now you just need to make a mount point and mount
\nthe disk. Notice that just like ZIP disks, IOMEGA use partion 4 (nobody
\nknows why this is so). To make a mount point type<\/p>\n

mkdir \/mnt\/clik<\/tt><\/p>\n

or whatever you prefer as your mount point. Now you can
\nmount the disk by typing<\/p>\n

mount -t vfat \/dev\/hdc4 \/mnt\/clik<\/tt><\/p>\n

You should now be able to list the contents of the disk with<\/p>\n

ls -l \/mnt\/clik<\/tt><\/p>\n

Copying files etc should now all work too.<\/p>\n

You should probably put the following line in \/etc\/fstab<\/p>\n

\/dev\/hdc4 \/mnt\/clik
\nvfat noauto, user 0 0<\/tt><\/p>\n

If you are using KDE<\/a> you can download a
\nmount\/unmount icon<\/a> to put on your
\ndesktop. I have been sent a couple of icon files for
\nGNOME<\/a>, a PNG<\/a>
\nand an XPM<\/a>. Thanks to Josh Jones and Giuseppe Castagna
\nfor those.<\/p>\n

Inserting\/Removing Disks<\/h2>\n

Just like floppy disks there is no hardware protection against removing
\na disk without unmounting it.\u00c2 IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL PROBABLY LOSE
\nDATA. Always<\/p>\n

umount \/mnt\/clik<\/tt><\/p>\n

before removing a disk. Another way to handle DOS\/Win disks is to use
\nthe mtools package (type man mtools<\/tt> to find out more)<\/p>\n

Caveats, Disclaimers, things to be aware of<\/h2>\n

ts, Disclaimers,
\nthings to be aware of<\/p>\n

The patches to the driver are free software, covered by the GPL.
\nUse of this software may well void your warranty with IOMEGA. Certainly I
\nmake no claims about the perfomance of this software other than that it works
\nfor me. Use at your own risk.<\/p>\n

Having said that I will be happy to accept
\ncomments<\/a> from users of this
\ndriver.<\/p>\n

APM support<\/h3>\n

Everything seems to work fine. As of 2.2.17b you no longer need to leave
\nthe disk in the drive<\/p>\n

Battery life<\/h3>\n

I did not notice any real change in battery life by having the drive
\ninserted, even with a disk mounted. The power saving circuitry in the
\ndrive seems to work fine.<\/p>\n

FIXED from 2.2.17b <\/span>Booting, Returning from
\nhibernation or standby with the drive in but no disk gives a problem for
\nnow. The way to fix it is to do a cardctl eject n <\/em>where n is
\nthe PCMCIA slot your card is in, insert a disk, then do a cardctl insert n
\n<\/em>to have the system recognise the disk. The same thing happens when you
\ninsert the card without a disk inside.<\/p>\n

Toshiba Libretto 100\/110 CT<\/h3>\n

The drive only works in slot 0, the bottom PCMCIA slot. I guess this is
\nsomething to do with the Cardbus stuff in slot 1.<\/p>\n

Things to do<\/h2>\n