Joe....I've never installed a parallel port zip, but your error
messages simply indicate that there is no disc in the drive.
Alan
Joe Brault wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I recently tried to connect my zip drive up to my computer, but ran into
> some problems... as root, I ran insmod parport with no problems, but when
> I ran insmod ppa I got the following:
>
> sda: read capacity failed
> sda: stating = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
> sda: extended sense code = 2
> sda: block size assume to be 512 bytes disk size 1GB
> sda: scsi disk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read table
>
> I'm not quite sure what all of this means, did I goof somewhere? I have a
> parallel port zip 100 drive, which shouldn't be too hard to install :)
> Thanks in adance!
>
> Joe :)