"G. Eric Morgan" wrote:
>
> Thanks for answering! I have tried 2 or 3 disks already tho... I did try an
> experiement tho. I did the ole lpr textfile.txt and low and behold my
> printer fired up. I have no idea how to tell what has been compiled into
> the kernel but I suspect that the parallel printer support has been in the
> default Mandrake 7.
>
> When I try rmmod lp I get it is not installed. Is this correct? Does this
> mean it must be compiled in statically? I see at boot up the lpd being
> started and stopped at shutdown. but I cannot find anywhere where it is
> loaded as a module and I cannot remove it either.
>
> Does this mean anything to anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
>
> > "G. Eric Morgan" wrote:
> > >
> > > I too have the exact same problem with BOTH Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.0.
> > > sda4 is not a valid block device. Here is my dmesg file where the
> > > parport_pc and ppa is loaded at the end. btw the other SCSI I have is
> the
> > > emulation for the CDburner which I have not yet wrestled with...
> > >
> > > Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> > > 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20
> > > snip....
> > >
> > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
> > > ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
> > > ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> > > ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
> > > scsi1 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
> > > scsi : 2 hosts.
> > > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
> > > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > > Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> > > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1
> GB]
> > > sda: Write Protect is off
> > > sda:SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code =
> 27010000
> > > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> > > unable to read partition table
> > >
> >
> >
> > I think if you put a different disk in (during bootup) your "Unable to
> > read partition etc." might go away.
> >
> >
Do:
fdisk -l /dev/sda (With a disk in the drive) It should list the
partition table on the disk. If this doesn't work:
I don't have printing set up (Don't need it very often) but I think if
you do ps aux you might see the printer daemon and be able to kill the
process long enough to test. If it works you can always track down the
startup for it and remove it.
Startup scripts are in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (console mode) or /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
(Start in X)
