IOmega Zip drives on a parallel port.

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Jun 4 22:16:29 UTC 2004


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.

> 
> This used to work and now it doesn't. 

What doesn't work? What symptoms are you seeing? What error messages?
Have you tried the same drive and disk on a different computer? Check
dmesg and /var/log/messages for error messages.

> In addition zip disks created on an internal iomega drive l
> associated with /dev/hdd can not be read on the external zip drive.

Could one or the other drive have gone bad, or the ZIP disk? badblocks
is your friend here.

> 
> 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.

Er, sounds like a bad drive or disk.

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