Re: zip drive

[Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 01:35:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'm running Linux 2.1.x and haven't been able to get my zip drive
> to work in ages (parallel port one). It should be as simple as installing
> parport, parport_pc, then ppa, shouldn't it? parport_pc always tells
> me device/resource busy on insertion; inserting ppa seems
> to just sit there ...
> 
> Any hints? I have zip only on the port; I don't want to use a printer
> as well.

I use these in /etc/conf.modules and it all works fine (except today when I
couldn't figure out why the ppa module wouldn't load - then I noticed that I
had left the Zip drive downstairs in a bag!)

alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7

Adrian

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