[6743] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon DeNardis)
Fri Nov 29 22:43:27 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:43:18 -0500
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From: Jon DeNardis <docboy@tznet.com>
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>> Has anyone out there had success in getting a parallel port Iomega
>> Zip drive working under Red Hat 4.0? I've created a kernel with this
>> built in, I get the notice that the driver is loaded, but it doesn't
>> indicate a device. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Had an Epson ZIP100 going on a friend's Computer. Used Colgate's "stock"
>2.0.18 Modular Kernel by adding a "alias scsi_hostadapter ppa" line to
>"/etc/conf.modules". Generated a new "/boot/initrd" with the "mkinitrd"
>Script and I was in business!
>
>>From the ZIP HOWTO it mentions the current 2.0.X Kernels do NOT support
>Printer Pass-through and the Parallel Port must be set to the Standard
>Mode. If you were building a Monolithic Kernel you would need "SCSI" and
>"SCSI Disk" Support enabled in addition to the "PPA" Support.
well i've been beating away at this for several hours now with no success, i
generated a new kernel(modular) but with the zip support built in, also, i
generated a new initrd image using mkinitrd /boot/initrd 2.0.18
any help would be appreciated
jon
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