Re: ppa zip drive
Gossamer wrote:
> I've got a know-to-be-working parallel port Zip drive that's not
> behaving with Debian (it used to work with my old RedHat setup).
>
> If I try to mount the partition I get the usual "not recognized as
> a block device" and if I modprobe ppa manually I get this:
>
> [root@mycroft] ~# modprobe ppa
> ppa: Version 1.42
> ppa: Probing port 03bc
> ppa: Probing port 0278
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> I have the SCSI and Iomega bits compiled as modules, as is the
> parralel printer support.
>
> Interestingly, the printer -passthrough- works fine, with the printer
> plugged into the "out" of the zip drive. Any ideas?
>
> bekj
>
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This may have absolutely no bearing on the issue, but I remember a thread several
months back about zip drives being on the 4th partition instead of the first like
logic would indicate. Sorry I don't remember enough to know what I'm talking about,
but maybe it's a clue.
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