IOmega Zip drives on a parallel port.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

My method to get iomega external zip drives to work under FC1  has been to do: modprobe ppa
and then use /dev/sda4.

This used to work and now it doesn't. In addition zip disks created on
an internal iomega drive l associated with /dev/hdd can not be read on
the external zip drive.

Currently most commands say /dev/sda4 is not a block device and when I
do a mkfs it starts but when it starts writing blocks the iomega drive
sounds like a machine gun which never stops and the process can't be
easily killed.

Any wisdom would be appreciated. This has happened with two different
iomega external drives so I am puzzled..
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
One Trinity Place.
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

telephone: (210)-999-7484
email:akonstam at trinity.edu