On Friday 20 May 2005 15:39, Jerry Turba wrote: > I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive [snip] > I have problems when I try to write to it. After the cp command > the system hangs for a while. When it comes back I have lost the use of > the keyboard but not the mouse, and I have to reboot.
Wild guess, but... are you sure the write protect tab on the actual ZIP disk is disabled? I think the option to detect write protected drives isn't enabled by default in Linux. That might be only with with USB devices, or something, though :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

