On Sunday 17 June 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2007-06-16 at 19:29 -0500, Clark Sann wrote: > > Anyone have any idea how I can get a 100 MB Iomega parallel port drive > > to work. I've connected it, have a zip drive in the drive, and > > rebooted. AFAIK, the system did not recognize the drive. I've spent an > > hour googling and am afraid I will have to recompile the kernel to add > > support for this think. Heck with that! I bet openSuse has an easier > > way. I've also browsed around Yast but couldn't find anything there. > > Finally, I installed 2 programs....gtkzip and ziptool. Neither work. > > First, you hijacked the tread: «Subject: [opensuse] How to check processor > is 32 bit or 64 bit ? in suse OS?» > > > About your question, it will not be autodetected. I haven't tried recently > (ie, with 10.2), but basically you need to manually load the corresponding > iomega module, which for the 250 unit means doing: > > modprobe imm > > if I remember correctly; the module is included in the kernel, you don't > need compiling anything. After you do that, then maybe the tools you > mentioned start to work; I havent tried them. > > > There is a howto with a lot of info: > > /usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/ZIP-Drive.gz > > if you installed them, or in the net somewhere. It says to use the imm > module for 100M drives, too. > > > You will also need a line in fstab for manually mounting; depending where > it appears, you will need something like: > > /dev/sda4 /media/zip2 auto defaults,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > > > (zip disks come partitioned using the 4th partition).
You remember correct the imm for newer drives and ppa for older are both included. I just loaded them with: modprobe imm modprobe ppa without any error reported, but I have no such drive so I can't say do they work. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
