mount parallel zip drive

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lazychris2000

Beginner

Posts: 10

Tuesday, September 16th 2003, 2:36am

mount parallel zip drive

i have an parellel Zip 100 drive, but i dont know how to mount it. im running Red Hat 9. i got the iomega drivers for linux, but they dont work....so anyone's help would be greatly appreciated!

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Nicolas Goutte

Intermediate

Posts: 194

Thursday, October 9th 2003, 12:01am

Normally you do not need any special driver. What comes with Linux 2.4 should be enough.

However you must be sure that your parallel port is configured correctly (right IO base and right IRQ interupt.)

The ZIP drive needs to be alone on the parallel port, you cannot have a mixed use of a single parallel port.

Then you need to put in action the correct driver:
- ppa for older parallel ZIP
- imm for ZIP-Plus and similar.

So in root modus, do
modprobe -v ppa

If it is not recognized, then:
modprobe -v imm

If it get recognized, you have now an additional SCSI drive on your system. (The drivers use the SCSI sub-system of Linux.) So normally your drive becomes /dev/sda

As ZIP disks for Windows have a partition in the 4th partition entry,
the complete partition name will be /dev/sda4

so you can mount it like any other filesystem (as VFAT.)

Have a nice day!