On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:16:29PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:30:30PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > My method to get iomega external zip drives to work under FC1 has > > been to do: modprobe ppa and then use /dev/sda4. > > I just tried that on one of my computers here (~1100 MHz Athlon, FC2 > as updated) and it worked. One caveat: I always have a ZIP disk in the > drive when I "modprobe ppa". That shouldn't be required, but doesn't > hurt. > > > In aseparate message I detailed my problems with the paralel poret zip drive but now I narrows it down to two problems which I will try to attack one at a time. Somehow when I do a mkfs /dev/sda4 on the zip drive it is trying to wrote past the end of the zip disk. Once that happens the machine will not recognise the aipdrive as bine a valid device for any acess. Any comments? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
