Manny Styles wrote:
>
> I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system.
> When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready
> to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not
> detected, and would not mount until I used "modprobe ppa". Unfortunately,
> this does not completely fix the problem. I have to use modprobe everytime
> I start my linux system in order to mount my zip drive. Is there a way I
> can get around this, and/or have the ppa module load at boot?
Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains:
#! /bin/sh
modprobe ppa
Then set it to be executable:
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
And it'll be run auto-magically whenever you boot.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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