Re: Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?

[Conrado Badenas <Conrado.Badenas@uv.es>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel
> support (which I think is unnecessary). None of these are modules and I
> don't want to use modules if I can avoid it.

I compiled for 2.2.1 with these options concerning modules, ZIP,
printer, and paralel port:
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y

If you can do it without modules go on, but I suggest to use modules. It
works for me.

Also, in /etc/fstab I added this entry:
$ grep zip /etc/fstab
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip msdos rw,user,noauto,umask=007,gid=25 0 2

created a directory in /mnt:
$ ls -l /mnt
drwxrwx---  16 root     disk        16384 Jan  1  1970 c
drwxrwx---   9 root     disk        16384 Jan  1  1970 d
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     floppy       1024 Mar  9 19:16 zip

included myself in group floppy:
$ grep floppy /etc/group
floppy:x:25:conrado

After rebooting with the new kernel and configured files, everything
went fine when I
$ mount /mnt/zip

Now it doesn't work because the ZIP drive isn't here, but it worked.
Although the ZIP drive isn't here, kernel loads modules that drive
needs:
$ grep sd_mod /proc/modules
sd_mod                 15508   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod               35832   1  (autoclean) [sd_mod]

If you don't like modules because now kmod doesn't deinstall unused
modules, you can do it with the next line in /etc/crontab:
$ grep rmmod /etc/crontab
0-59   *        * * *   root    /sbin/rmmod -as

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