-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGdQvTtTMYHG2NR9URAuKHAJ9GC+cJPLynTsg2Tb0g1wtfTp2QYwCePTgc S1J3pkZrw4CFlmE5JG1za3g= =VgE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----