No, ppa was used on some older models while imm is used on newer ZIps, including 100MB drives manufactured after some date -- I believe its in 1997 or 1998. (See the PPA driver code for an exact answer)
Zip drives do seem to "hang" systems for awhile based on what I can remember of my old Zip100 on Windows. When I switch to Linux, I ditched the parallel drive in favor of SCSI which doesn't seem to "hang". On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tyrin Price wrote: > > I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from > > my IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the > > machine occasionally blocks: it's like everything freezes for > > about half a minute before I can do anything again. This only > > happens when the ZIP drive is running (not sure if it's R or W > > or both). This is with kernel 2.2.17, using the imm driver as > > a module. I've set all the default "safe" options for the > > driver, like "slow and reliable" or whatnot. Is this a kernel > > bug? IMM driver bug? User bug? > > Hmmm ... I thought the imm module was for the parallel port 250 and > the ppa module is for the 100. You may want to try loading ppa vice > imm and see if this helps. > > > -- > -=[Ty]=- =o&>o > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
