Re: Using a iomega zip drive in FC1(sort of solved)

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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:53:11AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:39:26PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have two systems using FC1. One has an internal zip drive which
> > seems to be associated with /dev/hdd. That seems to work OK.
> > 
> > The other has a iomega zip drive attached to the parallel port and
> > then the parallel cable is fed through to the printer. This one seems
> > more of a mystery to get to work. Does anyone have any tips?
> 
> There are two different drivers for the parallel port ZIP drive. ppa
> is one, for older drives, and imm, I believe, is for more recent
> ones. So, e.g:
> 
> modprobe ppa
> 
> as root.
> 
Well now the rest of the story. After you do the modprobe ppa
you access the zip drive as /dev/sda4

One mystery remains. What line do you put in /etc/modules.conf to have
this happen?

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