[6745] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Fri Nov 29 23:21:53 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:20:08 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Jon DeNardis wrote:
.......
>
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have no clue what's that (underlined) all about but I've been
using parallel port drives including ZIPs since 1.3.7?. All I did
was:
1. Enabled SCSI support
2. Enabled SCSI disk support
3. Enabled PPA support.
(all three can be monolithic or modular)
Had to do nothing more than that to get it working... What can
I suggest...
1. Aren't you by any chance have that drive on port other than LPT1
(lp0)? Then you need to pass a parameters to the kernel, I know
there's a way but I never tried.
2. Are you trying to mount your ZIP drive through /etc/fstab on
a bootup and you have it compiled as a module? It won't always work.
3. You have a printer connected to the drive and printer is not
compiled as a module. Recompile printer as a module and try again. :)
I'd be interesed to find out if you solved the problem.
Regards,
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