IOmega Zip drives on a parallel port.

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Sat Jun 5 21:01:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:16:29PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:30:30PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> > My method to get iomega external zip drives to work under FC1 has
> > been to do: modprobe ppa and then use /dev/sda4.
> 
> I just tried that on one of my computers here (~1100 MHz Athlon, FC2
> as updated) and it worked. One caveat: I always have a ZIP disk in the
> drive when I "modprobe ppa". That shouldn't be required, but doesn't
> hurt.
> 
> > 
In aseparate message I detailed my problems with the paralel poret zip
drive but now I narrows it down to two problems which I will try to
attack one at a time.

Somehow when I do a mkfs /dev/sda4 on the zip drive it is trying to
wrote past the end of the zip disk. Once that happens the machine will
not recognise the aipdrive as bine a valid device for any acess.

Any comments?

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