Hi,
Tony Schlemmer wrote:
>
> I'm sitting at work here and our SA just gave me a parallel port based
> Zip drive. I have no experience with these things and so I have a few
> questions regarding their use with Linux.
>
> 1) Does it work with Linux?
Yes, it does.
>
> 2) So I have to do anything special to get my kernel to support a
> parallel port based drive on Linux?
You have to compile SCSI support (either into the kernel or as a module) to
enable your ZIP drive. I am sure this has been explained in this list earlier
and better), so you may want to check the list archive.
You will have to compile something like SCSI support _and_ SCSI driver support
_and_ support for parallel ZIP drive (there were three things, forgive me if I
do not have the names exactly right, it's been a while since I compiled for
my ZIP drive). Your ZIP drive can then be mounted on /dev/sda4 (or sdb or
whatever).
In older kernels (2.0.nn) you cannot have both a parallel printer and a ZIP
drive compiled into the kernel at the same time. You must use modules in that
case: load either the printer module or the ZIP/SCSI modules. Don't know how
this is in 2.2 kernels.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Schlemmer
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> http://www.sequeltech.com
Kind regards,
Martijn
= Martijn van den Burg
= Tech writer, archiver, Linux user
= Publications Department, ASML
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