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Re: PPA* Missing - Parallel ZIP100 Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Beck)
Fri Nov 13 10:21:58 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:07:42 -0800 (PST)
From: John Beck <swampgod@rocketmail.com>
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Is the parallel port set up as bi-directional in the
bios? I use to use the SPP setting, otherwise I got
weird errors. Finally went with internal Zip for
speed reasons ;-)
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---Adam Pritchard <adam_pritchard@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have just recompiled my kernel with the low-level
scsi drivers for my parallel port ZIP drive (ppa), I
boot up without problem and receive the following
kernel messages: -
>
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Version 1.42
>
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing port 03bc
Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing port 0378
Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: SPP port present
Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: PS/2 bidirectional
port present Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: EPP
1.9 with hardware direction protocol Nov 12 23:49:39
adam kernel: ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to
use EPP 32
> bit Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Communication
established with ID 6 using EPP
> 32 bit Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing
port 0278 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi0 :
AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI Ultra 240 CDB: IO 6
> 000/F, IRQ 9 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi1 :
Iomega parport ZIP drive Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel:
scsi : 2 hosts.
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model:
ZIP 100 Rev: J
> .03 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: Type:
Direct-Access ANSI S CSI revision: 02 Nov 12 23:49:39
adam kernel: scsi : detected total.
>
> This tells me that my ZIP drive was detected and is
contactable via the SCSI bus.
>
> Everything was fine until I came to mount it. There
were no /dev/ppa* devices! I have no idea why these
devices don't exist.
>
> I am running RedHat 5.1 with a freshly compiled
2.0.35 kernel, I have compiled the ppa support into
the kernel, no modules involved.
>
> Could somebody help me with this?
>
> Adam.
>
>
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