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
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
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
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 on -my
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 in
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 you
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
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
, 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, I got a Zip drive icon on my KDE desktop
that would not work
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
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 mount
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
AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?
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
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 have
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
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Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?
Yes...
If you are in LM81, that means devfs
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 floppy
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Subject: [newbie] Zip drive Access
Hi
guys
I have
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.com
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 0 0
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 thereafter.
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Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?
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
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
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
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 know
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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
SECOND device
on the SECOND IDE channel). It used to work just fine under
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From: Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:08 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?
Here is my entire FSTAB:
/dev/hda1
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
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
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.
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[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
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.
Yes.
] 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 did finally get the settings right on my USR 33.6 modem
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
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 get
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
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
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
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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
refuse
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
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 followed the guide at
http
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
-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. smile
-
If it helps I was the system admin at the local library and saw with my
own eyes. I,
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 Zip
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 my
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
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,
: [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.
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:38 PM
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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
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From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL
Is that zip drive Parallel or usb?
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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 Mandrake 7. I did the install n
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 the
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 the
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
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
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
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
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".
up about 3 years ago.
Hope this helps.
pezcal
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Zip drive
I have lately installed Linux Mandr
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 a
few small problems:
1.I can't get it to work my zip drive.
2.I backed up my windows through Mandrake one tim
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 mandrakes
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 you
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 mandrakes to
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
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
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 KDE.
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
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 :)
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
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
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
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,
Marcia Waller wrote:
Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed
snip
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
] 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 Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive
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
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
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]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive
Date: S
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
desktop an error
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 LM 7
Not a kernel. No. Just modules you probably have to load
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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'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external
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
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
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
there.
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.
"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
channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 2701
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
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From: "Jon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
Mani Abre
dule and I cannot remove it either.
Does this mean anything to anyone?
Thanks,
Eric
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From: "Jon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
"G. Eric Morgan
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'?)
I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading t
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 the drivers for
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
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
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, before
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
insmod
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:
As su
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. How
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: Device or resource busy
modprobe imm gives the same
Hey Y'all,
I'm running mdk 6.1 with an external zip100, and for me the fstab entry is not
hdd, but 'sda4' and instead of vfat it has 'auto'. This works perfectly for me.
Not sure if it's different in mdk 7 or if that's really more of an arbitrary
name, but if you haven't tried it yet, might give
My scsi zip250 is mounted on device /dev/sda4
I think the 4th partition is universal, I'm not sure
why they use the 4th partition, but I noticed that
most zips do, for linux that is, I don't know what
windoze zips do.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Thorsten Brenner mewed:
Hello everybody,
Now my
The 4 in there means: "the fourth partition in the first (a) HD". Don't know
quite how this applies to ZIP-drives. But then again: if you say it works that
way, well... That's the way it works. ;-)
On Mar 31 Thorsten Brenner wrote:
Hello everybody,
Now my Zip-Drive is running.
The
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: Device or resource busy
modprobe imm gives the same message (though I have a 100M drive so
modpobe
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