Re: ppa zip drive

[Leiserson <leiserson@cwixmail.com>]

> 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:
> ...
> 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?

I remember reading in the Zip-Drive mini-HOWTO (it is 
unmaintained and fairly out of date, at least the version on my 
system) that the lp and ppa drivers can not both run at the same 
time. So if the lp module is installed the zip drive probably won't 
work.

Andy Leiserson