-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-01-22 at 18:03 -0500, Joe G wrote:
i just wanted to take the time to say thank you to all of you for your efforts on my behalf. Unfortunately, I'm going to need this pc for my work and for starting night school this week. I figured I'd try over the weekend to get the ZIP going, but I guess It's just not meant to be. I even tried going into another old tutorial for SuSE 8 where it reccommended that I I instruct SuSE while booting to load the imm and parport modules by going i into .ex/boot.something/something.something. I'm going to do a re-install and then I need to keep this system running reliably. And, since it's getting harder to get even a printer that connects to the printer port anymore, I guess it just make sense for me to upgrade my ZIP hardware to something more modern. Even if I did get this to run, it's probably on its way to obsolescence anyhow. And I promise, I won't really destroy the ZIP drive. I have just enough time to do a clean reinstall before bed.
For your info, I just plugged my old ZIP 250 Iomega drive, parallel port, into my SuSE 9.3, and it worked first thing. I hadn't tried it since the 8th of October of 2004 at 19:18:58 hours (I checked my logs), probably with SuSE 8.1 or 8.2. Now it is 9.3, and it worked, without configuring anything. I don't remember this system really failing on me, for years. nimrodel:~ # mount /media/zip mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device nimrodel:~ # mount /media/zip2 mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device nimrodel:~ # modprobe imm nimrodel:~ # mount /media/zip nimrodel:~ # ls /media/zip . .. .fetchmailrc BUILD SPECS cer lost+found Notice that I manually loaded the module imm, I never bothered to automatize it. I no longer have the iomega zip howto in this system (or can't find it), so I can not check wether you really need ppa or imm - but don't try to load both, or it will not work. That's another thing to try out. Trying to solve a problem like this will not destroy your system. You do not need to reformat. What you need is to learn to type carefully! :-| What will you do if the usb thing doesn't work? There are still things we haven't tried, like for example, activating the kernel log and checking for errors. Or seeing how the bios is setup. Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: scsi0 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: J.45 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: SCSI device sda: 489532 512-byte hdwr sectors (251 MB) Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 31 00 00 08 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: SCSI device sda: 489532 512-byte hdwr sectors (251 MB) Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 31 00 00 08 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: sda: sda1 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0, type 0 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: scsi_id[6096]: 0:0:6:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: scsi_id[6096]: 0:0:6:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0 Jan 23 00:22:13 nimrodel kernel: scsi_id[6096]: 0:0:6:0: Unable to get INQUIRY vpd 1 page 0x0. Jan 23 00:22:15 nimrodel kernel: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Your log will be different, of course. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD1CBWtTMYHG2NR9URAln/AJ9FiesOL79QgiRHhBJ1ynx4jky0egCeIj+t e5zG8Y3p/TYNTNzrN/xbNBM= =w7V3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----