Parallel port Zip install?

SoulSe · 10-13-2003, 03:54 AM

I have RH9 up and running and I want to add a Iomega Zip drive 250 (par.) to my machine.

I'm assuming that the RH kernel will already have SCSI support enabled. Now, perhaps it is working already, but I don't know what /dev/ to look for.

I know it should probably be /dev/sda - and it probably would have been /dev/zip if it was plugged in when I installed... but there is no /dev/sda...

Please help!

320mb · 10-13-2003, 07:26 PM

put /dev/sda4 in your fstab, and from CLI load the imm driver.

for Slackware this is my line to use parport zip250

Code:

 /dev/sda4   /zip250   auto   noauto,owner,users,exec,rw   0  0

this allows my user to access zip and to read/write to/from it also. the "noauto" tells slack not to mount the drive on boot up. and my user has permission to mount/unmount drive anytime.

2damncommon · 10-13-2003, 10:13 PM

If you have not already browsed it, this can be useful:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ZIP-Drive.html

SoulSe · 10-14-2003, 02:27 AM

Thanks! The only problem is that sda4 is not showing up... I'll check it out again when I get back to my box

darkseed2g3 · 10-15-2003, 11:18 AM

in my fedora / redhat box i have a zip 100 para. zip drive

this is what i do

modprobe ppa
or imm in your case try them both just to be safe

mkdir /zip so you have the mount point
mount /dev/sda /zip
ive seen it
/dev/sda1 through 4 try them all into you get the right one