On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Mengmeng Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Benjamin Vera-Tudela wrote:
>
> > Hi all ... I just bought a Parallel port zip drive and I was wondering how
> > do I make it work on Linux (RH 5.2, 2.0.36 kernel).
>
> You should be able to "insmod ppa" (as root), and the zip drive will be
> then accessible from /dev/sda4. You can then mount it like any other
> drive. Also, if you have a printer connected together with the ZIP drive
> through the parallel port, you can't use it and the zip drive at the same
> time. You must rmmod the driver for one (lp is the printer module) if you
> want to use the other.
[snip]
Sorry to follow up my own reply here, but I realized there may be a few
errors. You probably want to do a "modprobe ppa" instead of "insmod ppa",
as that will load any other modules ppa depends on if they're not loaded.
Also, I'm assuming (since you have RH 5.2) that you installed the full
kernel rpm, which should have a whole bunch of modules ready to use,
including ppa and lp. Of course, if you upgrade to 2.2.x, you will have to
configure for a zip drive in the kernel configs. I think there's actually
two zip drivers in 2.2.x. ppa and imm. If you have a really recent
parallel zip drive, you may want to use imm. At least that's what the
kernel docs said. The imm driver didn't work for my zip drive, but it
doesn't hurt to just compile both ppa and imm as modules though. I think
there's may be 2.2.x RPM's out there though, so you may want to try those
and see if the needed modules are there.
HTH,
MZhang
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