Hello Michael, hello all,
although this is not the right place for this question (I recommend
Usenet for example) a short answer:
> Anyone using an Iomega Zip drive with Linux slackware? If so how do you
> set it up to work?
At my Linux box the support for parallel port Zip drives is set up
and working properly.
Here's how I did it:
- You must have a kernel with SCSI generic and SCSI disk support
enabled. The appropriate low level driver is found under SCSI low
level drivers and named as IOMEGA parellel port Zip drive or
something like that.
You can have all this compiled into a new kernel or as separate
modules.
- If all this is set up,
modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe ppa
should enable the Zip drive.
-One pitfall: You have to disable the parallel printer driver or set it
manually to use the port your printer is connected to (if you have
two parallel ports).
How to mount a Zip disk:
Assumed, the Zip drive is /dev/sda,
fdisk -l /dev/sda
will show you the available partitions if a disk is inserted.
You can mount them as usual in a way like:
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt -t vfat
(They are usually DOS formatted)
Hope this helps you a little bit further. More information on Zip
drives can be found at SunSite/Metalab where the HOWTOs
usually reside, in form of the Zip drive Mini-HOWTO.
73s, Gerd
