Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Bunyk <> | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 1998 10:12:59 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: ZIP drive on laptop parport? any success with it? |
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David Campbell writes: > > > > > >Hi, everyone! > > > > > >I'm trying to use a Zip drive (via ppa interface linked into the > > >kernel) on my ASUS laptop (running 2.1.115 ... 2.1.120) with no luck. > > Run "dmesg" and send me a copy of the output. The ppa driver is one of the > most noisy SCSI drivers (for kernel messages - mostly when it trys to figure > out the parallel port) but I can't help the fact that the driver has to deal with > something like 20+ variants of parallel ports (and some people have this idea > that all parallel ports are equal).
Yeah, if only it would print anything but "ppa version this and that" and then "scsi: 0 hosts" (my laptop is at home thus can not make dmesg, sorry...)
> Make sure that you not trying to use the "ZIP Plus" drive as this requires a > completely different driver (stable but not submitted to Linus due to > feature/code freeze on the 2.1.x kernel).
That it is! I've got ZIP Plus (hoping to hook it up on scsi sometimes, if only I would get a cable from my PCMCIA scsi card to that old horrible 25-pin connector... Must be my mistake...
Thank you for the URLs, I'll try to grab the patches and see if they work for me. If not I promise to be more specific about messages next time! :)
> > David Campbell
Paul
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