Hi:
I have a Jaz drive with a Jaz Traveller for connecting to the parallel
port. Before I had a printer, the thing was straightforward
to use. I now have a printer permanently connected to my
computer on the parallel port and want to use the Jaz drive just occasionally
to make some backups. I have heard that removable media drives can
sometimes hang the system if used improperly so I prefer to ask before.
Since both the printer and the Jaz drive get configured for the same
port, I suspect some care must be taken.
If I want to make a backup (say the machine is not
yet running), can I just disconnect the printer,
connect the Jaz traveller in place, and boot (assuming I have the
proper "alias scsi_adapter ppa" in the conf.modules file)?
Or do I need to also disable the printer (with printtool I guess, or
maybe via some other configuration file?...) before
disconnecting it and rebooting?
Is it possible to have the two (printer and Jaz drive) permanently
connected in a daisy chain? How can this then be configured?
A variation on these: is there a way to pass a parameter when booting
to tell the system what physical device is actually attached to the
parallel port, with a device being the default (just like what one does
with lilo.conf when one has more than one operating system)?
Thanks
Serge Pineault
