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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).
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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