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Re: Accessing parallel port ZIP under RH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant R. Guenther)
Wed Aug 13 08:23:09 1997
From: "Grant R. Guenther" <grant@knot.torque.net>
To: respect@voicenet.com (Chad Glynn)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:20:07 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970813070136.19738B-100000@omni1> from "Chad Glynn" at Aug 13, 97 07:22:13 am
> all sorts of things after reading the ZIP mini-howto and the SCSI-HOWTO.
> Under slakware, and what the ZIP mini-HOWTO instructs should happen, I
> should get a dev address at boot-time. However, at bootime it is able to
> recognize the drive is there, but it won't give an address. (see dmesg
> output below).
Actually, the ZIP drive mini-HOWTO does explain this exact situation.
You have loaded the ppa driver, but you have no SCSI _disk_ support in
your kernel.
Recompile and answer "y" to SCSI Disk support, or make the module and
insmod it.
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