[newbie] Zip drive trouble (or am I a moron?)

2004-05-11 Thread Mattias Thorslund
Hello, good folks, I have been googling for a whole night trying to find the solution to this problem. Seems others have had it but I can't find the solution... I have a 100 MB Zip drive, on the parallel port. I got it working under RedHat 9, after some configuration. Now I'm trying out - or mi

Re: [newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread acid
Go to [newbie] user permissions thre's a copy of my fstab there. On Sunday 14 March 2004 11:55 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:48 pm, acid wrote: > ->mandrake 9.2 > ->amd xp2000+ > ->256 pc2700 > ->Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an > icon

Re: [newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 March 2004 01:48 pm, acid wrote: ->mandrake 9.2 ->amd xp2000+ ->256 pc2700 ->Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an icon on ->my desktop and a zip disk in the drive , but when i click on the icon it ->loads Konquerer with a blank page( 0 files, 0 direc

[newbie] zip-drive not being read

2004-03-14 Thread acid
mandrake 9.2 amd xp2000+ 256 pc2700 Though Mandrake see's my zip drive (250) it dosen't read it, i have an icon on my desktop and a zip disk in the drive , but when i click on the icon it loads Konquerer with a blank page( 0 files, 0 directories). Tried as root as well with same results. Load sa

Re: [newbie] Zip drive oddity

2003-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 06:36 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Hi Sharrea! Thanks for the reply... >SD You're right Ron, no harm is done and I agree, it IS really annoying >SD scrolling thru logs/email with hundreds of lines unnecessarily. You can >SD either safely ignore these messages or, if yo

Re: [newbie] Zip drive oddity

2003-12-03 Thread Sharrea Day
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I've got the usual Iomega Zip drive at /dev/hdc (master, 2nd channel) on > my Soyo Dragon Plus MB. I've used it under v9.0 and 9.1 with no problems. > I'm able to use it just fine now, cp'ing/rm'ing files no problems. I am > getting an odd message

[newbie] Zip drive oddity

2003-12-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've got the usual Iomega Zip drive at /dev/hdc (master, 2nd channel) on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB. I've used it under v9.0 and 9.1 with no problems. I'm able to use it just fine now, cp'ing/rm'ing files no problems. I am getting an odd message in dmesg that I've never gotten before (this is under

[newbie] Zip drive oddity

2003-12-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've got the usual Iomega Zip drive at /dev/hdc (master, 2nd channel) on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB. I've used it under v9.0 and 9.1 with no problems. I'm able to use it just fine now, cp'ing/rm'ing files no problems. I am getting an odd message in dmesg that I've never gotten before (this is under 9.

Re: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post)

2002-11-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:47 pm, you wrote: > Anyway, I am so glad that your conclusions mirror that of what a fresh > install did for me. I just wish that you could have come over for a couple > of beers and some of the best Italian pizza in the world. I know you would > have been able to

Re: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post)

2002-11-06 Thread Technoslick
List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:11 AM Subject: [newbie] Zip drive/hdc=ide-scsi ramblings...(long post) Just thought I'd post this in case it helps anyone else who has had zip drive difficulties at one time or the other. When I installed v8.2 of Mandrake

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > I edited my fstab and replaced the existing ZIP entry with the following: > > /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > Did not reboot, since I'm told that the changes are automagically made. > > Typed

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Vijay Ramachandran
You don't need to reboot, you can do a 'mount -a' to mount all entries in fstab. Vijay Mel Roman writes: > I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've > always assumed that fstab was read once when Linux > boots, and didn't look at it thereafter. If that's > the case, then you'd h

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
nal Message- > From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1? > > > "Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > > > Thanks for your h

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > Thanks for your help... Here's the info you asked for: > > * I tried "mount /mnt/zip" and got "mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device" Okay. > * My /etc/fstab: > /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipauto > user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,s

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-04 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
=== > -Original Message- > From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1? > > > > Yes... &g

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Yes... If you are in LM81, that means devfs is in place. Devfs is probably one of the better advancements in the Linux world within the last few years. It carries with it quite a few advantages; one of which is to actually be able to see what devices have been detected on your system. Of c

RE: [newbie] Zip drive Access

2002-02-02 Thread Richard Bartlett
, 2 February 2002 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Zip drive Access   might be an idea to make sure the drive works under windows, and the disk your trying is not a duff. zip drives are not the most reliable beasties   Rick   Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5

Re: [newbie] Zip drive Access

2002-02-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
1105 - ICQ : 15776037   PGP Public Keyhttp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA - Original Message - From: Richard Bartlett To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: [newbie] Zip drive Access Hi

[newbie] Zip drive Access

2002-02-02 Thread Richard Bartlett
Hi guys   I have installed an internal zip drive into my Mandrake 8.1 machine and I am having dramas getting access to the drive   Using hardrake I can find that the zip drive is there as /dev/hdd   However if I try to use the mount (i.e. under KDE on the desktop I make a new flopp

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread FLYNN, Steve
nald J. Hall [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1? > > Mel Roman wrote: > > > > >I don't have to reboot after adding that, > > >or execute

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Mel Roman wrote: > > >I don't have to reboot after adding that, > >or execute any special commands > >to get Linux to re-read fstab, > >do I? I DIDN'T! > > I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've > always assumed that fstab was read once when Linux > boots, and didn't look at it th

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > Here is my entire FSTAB: > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto > iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:07, you wrote: > Here is my entire FSTAB: > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto > iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
(513)-558-3784 === > -Original Message- > From: Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:08 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under L

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1? > > > "Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > > > I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)" wrote: > > I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on > the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I > did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The > drive powers during POST, so I

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:44, you wrote: > I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on > the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I > did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The > drive powers during

[newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, it isn't recognized within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the connections are still good. Can a

[newbie] zip drive and cd rom locked out

2001-11-21 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi I think I have overcome some of my mount problems as mentioned in a previous email but now I have no access to my CD ROM or Zip Drive. The permission appear to be set but I cannot access them as root or a user. Is there a lock file somewhere I am overlooking? Many thanks in advance. Jim [

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

2001-10-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Mark Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next > few days, to use with several machines -- including > my LM7.2 box. > > Any reason I should choose USB over parallel port, or > vice-versa? > > Thanks in advance.

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2001-10-05 Thread Franki
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Shaw Sent: Friday, 5 October 2001 11:24 PM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Zip drive I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next few days, to use with several machines -- including my LM7.2 box. Any reason I should choose USB

[newbie] Zip drive

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Shaw
I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next few days, to use with several machines -- including my LM7.2 box. Any reason I should choose USB over parallel port, or vice-versa? Thanks in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive question

2001-07-01 Thread Lin Kenham
Subject: Re: [newbie] Zip Drive question >It was Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:26:52 -0500 when Dave wrote: > >>OK---this is my second post so I hope this isn't a stupid question.. >> >>Will my External Parallel 100 mb Zip Drive work with LInux Mandrake 7.2? >>Ps: I di

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive question

2001-06-30 Thread Paul
It was Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:26:52 -0500 when Dave wrote: >OK---this is my second post so I hope this isn't a stupid question.. > >Will my External Parallel 100 mb Zip Drive work with LInux Mandrake 7.2? >Ps: I did finally get the settings right on my USR 33.6 modem(didn't have >a manu

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive - Lost Interrupt

2001-05-18 Thread Serafim Dahl
Ron Phelps wrote: > I recently installed 7.2 and have the following problem when I boot. > > If I don't have a zip disk in the drive when I boot, the message "hdd: > lost interrupt" repeatedly prints on the screen and the boot process > stalls. At this point if I put a disk in the drive I still

[newbie] Zip Drive - Lost Interrupt

2001-05-17 Thread Ron Phelps
I recently installed 7.2 and have the following problem when I boot. If I don't have a zip disk in the drive when I boot, the message "hdd: lost interrupt" repeatedly prints on the screen and the boot process stalls. At this point if I put a disk in the drive I still get the "lost interrupt" mes

Re: [newbie] Zip drive unmount

2001-02-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrew Lazarewicz wrote: > Hi! I know this was covered before, but I can't find > it. I can mount (by inserting) a zip disk as a user, > but I have to unmount (umount) as root. What is the best > way just to eject a Zip disk as a user? > > Thanks! - Andy Andyif it's supermounted then

[newbie] Zip drive unmount

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew Lazarewicz
Hi! I know this was covered before, but I can't find it. I can mount (by inserting) a zip disk as a user, but I have to unmount (umount) as root. What is the best way just to eject a Zip disk as a user? Thanks! - Andy -- Andrew R. Lazarewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://world.std.com

Re: [newbie] zip drive permissions

2001-01-15 Thread civileme
On Sunday 14 January 2001 16:16, you wrote: > Dear All, > I have been trying to straighten out this zip drive permission problem > for months now. > > I did not have this problem with Mandrake 7. I have LM 7.2 and an Atapi > IDE internal zip drive that worked fine at first then just started to > r

[newbie] zip drive permissions

2001-01-14 Thread marcia
Dear All, I have been trying to straighten out this zip drive permission problem for months now. I did not have this problem with Mandrake 7. I have LM 7.2 and an Atapi IDE internal zip drive that worked fine at first then just started to refuse me (as user) to access the zip drive. I have tr

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
goldenpi wrote: > Should do, but they dont. heres what you do: As with so many things! ;-) > 1. remove all mounting for the zip drive. Everything. > 2. now its not mounting. You must mount it manually. > 3. just use the mount and umount commands to use the disk. > > thats "mount /dev/hdbx /mnt

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Goldenpi wrote: > > Easy. The problem is that factory formated carts are formated on partition > 4. user-formated carts are formated on partition 1. Supermount does not like > this. You will just have to mount them manually. Um, small problem. I'm not using Supermount. Here is the relevant line

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 January 2001 04:15 pm, you wrote: > Goldenpi wrote: > > They are both scsi. You have to mount them as such. its /dev/sd?? for > > scsi stuff. Zip drives are always on partition 4 (sd?4). > > Well, let me make a small comment about that. I know its different, I have > an internal IDE Z

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-05 Thread Carl Lafferty
->my Zip carts (even though they came from the factory pre-formatted). So...I ->thought I'd be creative and leave the partition number off from the fstab line. ->Heh, then it wouldn't read *any* Zip carts. -> If it helps I was the system admin at the local library and saw with my own eyes. I, o

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Goldenpi wrote: > They are both scsi. You have to mount them as such. its /dev/sd?? for scsi > stuff. Zip drives are always on partition 4 (sd?4). Well, let me make a small comment about that. I know its different, I have an internal IDE Zip drive, and I always used 4 as the partition in my /etc

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-05 Thread Goldenpi
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II > >I had to set up my zip 100 drive after 7.2 install to be able to mount and > >umount at will. I follo

[newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-03 Thread kneiper
>I had to set up my zip 100 drive after 7.2 install to be able to mount and >umount at will. I followed the guide at >http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html I used >the part added by jim C. Hope this helps. Tried all the advie, but none of it helped. Both m

[newbie] Zip Drive Problem

2001-01-01 Thread Mike Riffle
I just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.2 and am having problems getting zccess to my external Zip drive. If I try to access through the dektop icon, I get the message, "Unable to enter File:/mnt/zip. You do not have access rights to this location." If I try as root with Konqueror, I get, "Could not ent

[newbie] Zip drive questions?

2000-12-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake v7.2 on his 400mhz/128 meg Ram Pentium. He's got an internal IDE Zip drive that is driving us crazy. This drive is setup as 2nd IDE channel, slave. It works fine under Windows. When we installed Mandrake, it found it, the light comes on the drive, and

Re: [newbie] zip drive

2000-11-15 Thread Goldenpi
Is that zip drive Parallel or usb? - Original Message - From: "Marcia L Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive > I just installed 7.2 over Ma

Re: [newbie] zip drive

2000-11-15 Thread Goldenpi
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] zip drive > Seems all Zips are technically SCSI. The parallel version uses a SCSI > emulation, probably the same case with USB. > > -Carlton > > > >

RE: [newbie] zip drive

2000-11-15 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
: [newbie] zip drive I cant tell you about the usb drives, but the parallel zips are scsi. I dont know how but both bindows and linux see them as scsi. - Original Message - From: "Bob Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:

Re: [[newbie] zip drive]

2000-11-13 Thread Michael Scottaline
Bob Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything > worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. > During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder > in

Re: [newbie] zip drive

2000-11-13 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 13 November 2000 16:38, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything > worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive > installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and > installed the folder in

[newbie] zip drive

2000-11-13 Thread Bob Schmidt
Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 3700 pIII 450mhz, I installed ver 7.2 and everything worked fine. When I installed linux I had my usb iomega zip drive installed. During the installation the os found the zip drive, and installed the folder in the mount folder. But when I go to it, it has a lo

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-16 Thread L. H. LOO
Thank you for the info. Regards. At 16-09-2000 02:11 AM, you wrote: >OK, here I am again with the zip thing. Take a look at " >http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html ". See if >the directories and files that are in the instructions are there. If not >go ahead and do what the

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-15 Thread Dennis Myers
OK, here I am again with the zip thing. Take a look at " http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html ". See if the directories and files that are in the instructions are there. If not go ahead and do what the instructions say and your zip drive should stay put and not go "AWOL".

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-15 Thread hugh
Thats strange I havent had a problem yet, I wonder what would cause that to happen? On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Linux Mandrake 7.1 also set up my zip drive 'auto'. I am surprised. My Zip > 100 is "fond of awol" it disappears and appears of its own will, I do not > know how to nail it d

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-15 Thread L. H. LOO
Linux Mandrake 7.1 also set up my zip drive 'auto'. I am surprised. My Zip 100 is "fond of awol" it disappears and appears of its own will, I do not know how to nail it down. Regards. At 14-09-2000 07:04 AM, you wrote: >You may want to try 7.1. It set up my zip on my desktop without a single >

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-14 Thread hugh
PROTECTED]] > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:16 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:[newbie] Zip drive > > > > > > I have lately installed Linux Mandrake and find it very good,but I have

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-14 Thread Riley, Patrick (Patrick)** CTR **
his thing up about 3 years ago. Hope this helps. pezcal > -- > From: David O'Sullivan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Zip drive >

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-13 Thread Dennis Myers
David, go to "  http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html   "  you have to do the changes in Superuser or Root mode on a console. But the directions are straight forward and as a real newbie a couple of months ago I was able to mount my Zip .  The second problem I can't help yo

[newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-13 Thread David O'Sullivan
  I have lately installed Linux Mandrake and find it very good,but I have a few small problems:     1.I can't get it to work my zip drive.     2.I backed up my windows through Mandrake one time when I had to re-boot windows but now it won't let me send the files back the same way from mandr

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-07 Thread Larry Marshall
> I have lately installed Linux Mandrake and find it very good,but I > have a few small problems: > 1.I can't get it to work my zip drive. Don't know zip drives...sorry. > 2.I backed up my windows through Mandrake one time when I had to > re-boot windows but now it won't let me send the

[newbie] Zip drive

2000-09-07 Thread David O'Sullivan
I have lately installed Linux Mandrake and find it very good,but I have a few small problems:     1.I can't get it to work my zip drive.     2.I backed up my windows through Mandrake one time when I had to re-boot windows but now it won't let me send the files back the same way from mandrake

Re: [newbie] Zip drive vs. scanner

2000-08-31 Thread Paul
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Hugh wrote: >Thanks Paul, >But how does one change the scsi id? Can you point me in the right direction? That usually is a little rotating device at the bottom/base or underneath the scanner. Paul -- When angry, count to 4. When very angry, swear. -Mark Twain http://nlpag

Re: [newbie] Zip drive vs. scanner

2000-08-31 Thread Hugh
Thanks Paul, But how does one change the scsi id? Can you point me in the right direction? On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Hugh wrote: > > >Is it possable my paraport zip might be messing with my scsi scanner? > >I noticed my zip shows up when I checked my scsi under KD

Re: [newbie] Zip drive vs. scanner

2000-08-31 Thread Paul
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Hugh wrote: >Is it possable my paraport zip might be messing with my scsi scanner? >I noticed my zip shows up when I checked my scsi under KDE. >7.1 found my zip and installed it to my desktop. What would I need to do >to correct this? If it is a problem that is :) You could

[newbie] Zip drive vs. scanner

2000-08-30 Thread Hugh
Is it possable my paraport zip might be messing with my scsi scanner? I noticed my zip shows up when I checked my scsi under KDE. 7.1 found my zip and installed it to my desktop. What would I need to do to correct this? If it is a problem that is :)

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcia Waller wrote: > > Dear All, Thank you very much for all of your wonderful suggestions for the > zip drive. I will try them. Also, someone asked me to post my /etc/fstab > file so here it is:/dev/hdc/mnt/zip msdos > user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=100,umask=0,opt1=

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-07 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you very much for all of your wonderful suggestions for the zip drive. I will try them. Also, someone asked me to post my /etc/fstab file so here it is:/dev/hdc/mnt/zip msdos user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=100,umask=0,opt1=va1,opt2=none,o pt3,opt4=2 1 1 D

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread kdm
You need to add this line in /ect/fstab:(as root) /dev/hdx /mnt/zip ext2 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,sync 0 0 replacing /dev/hdx with whatever your zip drive is, if you have one hd, it should be /dev/hdb, the zip drive is in many respects a (small) hd. You will then need to create th

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Fred Schroeder
6 PM Subject: [newbie] Zip Drive > Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed > Mandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I used > Partition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip is > listed in Lothar. It is an At

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcia Waller wrote: > > Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed Hi Marcia. Did you creat a mount point in /mnt? It should be /mnt/zip Here is the line from /etc/fstab file for my internal zip drive: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipvfatuser,noauto 0 0

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Vic
Are you able to mount the zip drive via the commandline? In an X terminal type mount /mnt/zip if that does not work, try mount /dev/hdxx /mnt/zip where 'xx' means the number and letter designation of the ide interface that the zip is connected to. On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Dear Anyone,

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Pete Clapham
Marcia -- I have a zip drive that works just fine. It's a SCSI rather than an IDE, but I don't think that should matter much. A suggestion would be to put a disk in the drive, and then boot up your machine. Watch the information on the screen to see if the disk comes up (it should be someth

[newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed Mandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I used Partition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip is listed in Lothar. It is an Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive. I even put an

[newbie] Zip drive..

2000-07-16 Thread A J Benamu
Hi, Does anybody know how to configure the Zip drive on version 7.0? I also have version 7.1 and it configures my Zip drive but I lose my mouse. I have a USB mouse from HP (Logitech). I also have a USB keyboard which works perfectly under version 7.1. Any ideas? AJ

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-19 Thread Edison Gica
Hi Chris and Mike: Yes, the zip disk was in the drive. Thanks for the info Chris, I'll try it when I get my other software working with Linux. edison >From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-17 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Don't know if this has been answered yet, but do you have a disk in the drive? Mike > > Edison Gica wrote: > > > > > Hi: > > > > > > i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer > > > port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the > > > deskt

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Hall
Not a kernel. No. Just modules you probably have to load - Original Message - From: Chris Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive > Edison Gica wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > i&#x

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Hall
Edison Gica wrote: > Hi: > > i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer > port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the > desktop an error message comes up 'invalid block device'. > > is there a kernel that i have to install first from the L

[newbie] Zip Drive & kernel

2000-05-27 Thread mcoady
Although I can operate my internal ATAPI-IDE Zip drive, at boot up I get the message "fs type not supported by kernel". I found this instruction somewhere about doing something to the kernel in configuring it to recognize the drive. "Do _not_ use the "IDE FLOPPY" option (officially the name is

Re(2): [newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 12/05/00, at 11:40, Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Kirkmy guess would be that you have supermount enabled and >supermount desktop icons don't have this option. ^ It must have been something like that... I deleted the desktop icons, and made new kdelink files and it works now. th

Re: [newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kirkmy guess would be that you have supermount enabled and supermount desktop icons don't have this option. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: > > I had to reinstall my Mandrake system. Before, I could unmount my Zip > drive by right-clicking and selecting Unmount. This option is no longer > the

[newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Kirk McElhearn
I had to reinstall my Mandrake system. Before, I could unmount my Zip drive by right-clicking and selecting Unmount. This option is no longer there. How do I get it back? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writ

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-06 Thread Jon
find anywhere where it is > loaded as a module and I cannot remove it either. > > Does this mean anything to anyone? > > Thanks, > Eric > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wed

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-06 Thread Gemini56
rs= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB] > sda: Write Protect is off > sda:SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 2701 > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 > unable to read partition table > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-05 Thread Jon
"G. Eric Morgan" wrote: > > I too have the exact same problem with BOTH Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0. > sda4 is not a valid block device. Here is my dmesg file where the > parport_pc and ppa is loaded at the end. btw the other SCSI I have is the > emulation for the CDburner which I have not yet w

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-05 Thread G. Eric Morgan
nday, April 02, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive problem > Mani Abreu wrote: > > > Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: > > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device > > (maybe 'insmod driver'?) > >

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-04 Thread forstfed
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am using the parrallel Zip Drive under Mandrake 7. Works just like it's supposed to, by doing: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip And to eject/insert another disk: umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip Ed > Bruce

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-04 Thread Lance Borden
Yeah, I tried the mini-HOWTO for the zip drive a couple of months ago when I was trying to get my parallel port zip going, and I found that the mini-HOWTO is OUTDATED. I spent several days trying to do exactly what it said, trying to recompile the kernel, reinstalling the whole system (mdk 6.1)..

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-04 Thread Jon
Bruce Hilliker wrote: > > Jon wrote: > > > Mani Abreu wrote: > > > > > Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: > > > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device > > > (maybe 'insmod driver'?) > > > > > > I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Jon wrote: > Mani Abreu wrote: > > > Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: > > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device > > (maybe 'insmod driver'?) > > > > I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for > > the line printer first

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-02 Thread Michael N. Proffitt
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive problem > Geez, You guys made me dig my old zip drive out of the closet to test this problem > and you know, it didn't work either. Tried it on a RedHat 6.1 and a Mandrake > 7.0-2 machine. Hardware works as I

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-02 Thread Jon
Mani Abreu wrote: > Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device > (maybe 'insmod driver'?) > > I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for > the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-02 Thread Mani Abreu
Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved. Mani forstfed wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > This is what worked for me: > > A

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-02 Thread Mani Abreu
Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy forstfed wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > This is what worked for me: > > As su in a terminal window: > > mkdir /mnt/zip > > insmod parport

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-01 Thread forstfed
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is what worked for me: As su in a terminal window: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip make sure there is a disk in. You have to umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip to eject the disk, then mount -t msdos /dev/sda

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-01 Thread Marlboro Man
Mani Abreu wrote: > > Jon wrote: > > > Idris S Hamid wrote: > > > > > I am having trouble getting the zip drive recognized in > > > Mandrake 7.0. Here is what I get: > > > > > > # modprobe ppa > > > /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdksecure/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or > > > resource busyparport: De

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