The Internal Zip Drive is an ide-scsi device, so you want to follow the instructions
here. Otherwise, it might incorrectly probe ide-floppy and this may result in binary
data corruption in transfers. BTW, what does modprobe sg do?
> Not 100% sure, (if this is an IDE device) but if I recall correctly this is
> an ide-scsi device. You may want to try to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the
> line append="hdx=ide-scsi" where x is the drive letter of the zip. and
> add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local /sbin/modprobe sg and /sbin/modprobe
> ide-scsi. Then reboot your system, (this is necessary). Your drive should
> be something like /dev/sdx (not sure on the device tail letter) after the
> reboot. You can take a look at dmesg after reboot to make sure you drive
> was seen. The you may want to make a mount point like, mkdir /mnt/zip and
> a symlink in /dev like ln -s sdx zip and edit /etc/fstab and create an
> entry for it (you could use linuxconf to do this under access local drive).
>
> Best of luck.
> Kirk
>
Redhat specific instructions are available on the net, I don't remember where. For an
external zip drive running redhat 6.0, I put the following at the end of rc.local.
/sbin/modprobe ppa
although, I have also seen
/sbin/insmod parport
/sbin/insmod ppa
If it is the tools disk, it might be partitioned on sda1. All other disks for msdos are
typically sda4. You can use fdisk to reformat the disk or configure mtools to use
either partition. I like mtools since you don't have to mount/umount the disk. In
/etc/mtools.conf put:
drive z: file="/dev/sda" partition=4
drive z: file="/dev/sda" partition=1
and set your own environment variables MTOOLS_LOWER_CASE 1 if all uppercase filenames
tend to annoy you. (This only happens with files copied in DOS.
>
> What about an external parallel port? I have tried the how to and it does
> not work! I have configured kernel to enable scsi support ( using ide hds)
> and iomega zip support parallel printer support etc.
> I type the insmod to insert parallel port support, before this i make sure
> that the scsi mods are loaded. I get an error message saying that kernel
> does not acknowledge /sda4 as a block device, try insmod?
Good Luck,
Juan
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