mike montgomery wrote:
> Well I'm sorry Sergio this worked for me.
>
> I just looked at how I set up my linux box to use a zip drive, I mounted
> lots of zip disks, everything worked.......
Thanks Mike...
Ohh... I am using M6 with all the updates, kernel-2.2.9-27mdk
It does work...!!!! Finally, did it!\
for those of you still wondering (like I did) how to have your zip drive
working under M6,
Here's a brief explanation.
First in your conf.modules you need to add (if not already there)
"alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc"
now this is what I have added in my "fstab" file
(well... part of it)
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,nodev,user,exe
0 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
none /proc proc defaults 0
0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
Then used "modprobe ppa" just to check if the zip drive was active, it was...
then run "insmod ppa", to my surprise it was already there "active" so I
didn't have to change anything else.
then just pop up a zip diskette in there and it worked! I was able to read old
zip drives when I was a blind M$ user... (Long before I discovered Linux!)
After that just added a link to the destop, tested it and voila! it works!
I'd like to thank everyone in this list for the assistence... you're great
guys!
(and I don't give up so easily ;-))
Sergio Korlowsky
