On Sunday 17 June 2007 14:23, Clark Sann wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007 05:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-06-16 at 19:29 -0500, Clark Sann wrote:
Anyone have any idea how I can get a 100 MB Iomega parallel port drive to work. I've connected it, have a zip drive in the drive, and rebooted. AFAIK, the system did not recognize the drive. I've spent an hour googling and am afraid I will have to recompile the kernel to add support for this think. Heck with that! I bet openSuse has an easier way. I've also browsed around Yast but couldn't find anything there. Finally, I installed 2 programs....gtkzip and ziptool. Neither work.
First, you hijacked the tread: «Subject: [opensuse] How to check processor is 32 bit or 64 bit ? in suse OS?»
About your question, it will not be autodetected. I haven't tried recently (ie, with 10.2), but basically you need to manually load the corresponding iomega module, which for the 250 unit means doing:
modprobe imm
if I remember correctly; the module is included in the kernel, you don't need compiling anything. After you do that, then maybe the tools you mentioned start to work; I havent tried them.
There is a howto with a lot of info:
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/txt/ZIP-Drive.gz
if you installed them, or in the net somewhere. It says to use the imm module for 100M drives, too.
You will also need a line in fstab for manually mounting; depending where it appears, you will need something like:
/dev/sda4 /media/zip2 auto defaults,noauto,user,exec 0 0
(zip disks come partitioned using the 4th partition).
You remember correct the imm for newer drives and ppa for older are both included. I just loaded them with: modprobe imm modprobe ppa without any error reported, but I have no such drive so I can't say do they work.
Thanks all for your help. I got the Zip drive working. Sorry for the inadvertent hijack. I won't do that again.
Hi Clark, I got your direct mail earlier today [1], where simple modprobe imm or modprobe ppa didn't worked, but I had no time to answer. Today is Fathers Day here so there are other important activities ;-) and online got to wait. There is few reasons why it didn't worked so it will be nice if you tell the list what happend and how you made it work [2]. [1] Thunderbird is at this time not very good option for this list. That will change in the future as Thunderbird will get option "Reply to list", but right now you should use "Reply to all" and then edit TO and CC fields. TO is filled with private address and it should be deleted, CC is filled with mail list address and it should be changed to TO. The other option is KMail, that has quite few options for handling lists, including the "Reply to list" and also one that confused me as I didn't looked in other possible effects of "Thread messages also by subject" option. ;-) [2] The HOWTO about parallel port ZIP drives is full of broken links, and while it is not many in use today people that have them should be able to use them. I intended to look into, but as mentioned today is not good day for online activity :-) I'll write article on openSUSE wiki about parallel port scanner installation, but I have no ZIP drive and I can't do much to rescue information how to install them. Your experience can help to people like you to give second life to their ZIP drives. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org