Rajko M. wrote: > 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. > >
Thanks all for your help. I got the Zip drive working. Sorry for the inadvertent hijack. I won't do that again. Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
