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Old 03-31-2005, 03:20 PM   #1
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Need to make Iomega parallel zip 100 visible in SUSE 9.2 Pro


The documentation (and net surfing for information) is confusing me. I'm trying to make my parallel port Iomega zip 100 drive visible as an icon under myComputer (KDE desktop). Some information I've read says to edit fstab (but that was for an 8.x Linux). Other stuff I've read says I have to make the driver for the zip drive load before the driver for the printer, which I don't know where to begin doing. I don't know anything about fstab content except (maybe) the device is called ppa3. Is there a howto article I've missed? Some information says go to Iomega.com and get a program called iw, and mount the drive with that. YaST just tells me the drive is there (even though I can't access it), it's no help.
I've seen posts about this elsewhere in the forums, but not for SUSE 9.2, so I have to annoy people by asking.
 
Old 04-02-2005, 06:58 AM   #2
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Oh, well, I found some stuff on this at http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lo...hp/t12274.html
The above link lets me operate the drive from a desktop icon, although I can't place it as a folder under myComputer.
Strange, though, the results of my dmesg| grep ppa is:

ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
scsi2 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface

The PS/2 part in the entry confuses me. The desktop icon works the zip drive, now, though (KDE Desktop).
Now I have to figure out how to work with the write protection put on the zip disk by windows utilities.
 
  


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