[6747] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon DeNardis)
Fri Nov 29 23:47:01 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:46:55 -0500
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From: Jon DeNardis <docboy@tznet.com>
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At 07:20 PM 11/29/96 -0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
ok my prob was that i didn't include scsi disk support, got it working now
though!
thanks,
jon
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