Re: Zip Drive not Recognized as Block Device
Have you loaded the ppa module?
-Rob
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:34:00AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Hi Folks;
> The Zip Drive uses a separate parallel port card to which it is
> plugged into (works under Windows 98). I have added the
> io=0x278 to "modules.conf", and run "depmod -a" to update
> the "modules.dep". As shown below the new ioport is
> recognized by /proc/parport/1/hardware. What do I have to
> do to get the ioport accepted by parport_pc?
>
> root@linux:/home/clay > modprobe parport_pc
> root@linux:/home/clay > lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 7440 0 (unused)
> parport 7432 0 [parport_pc]
>
> root@linux:/home/clay > mount /zip
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> root@linux:/home/clay > less /proc/parport/0/hardware
> base: 0x378
> irq: none
> dma: none
> modes: SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2
>
> root@linux:/home/clay > less /proc/parport/1/hardware
> base: 0x278
> irq: none
> dma: none
> modes: SPP,PS2
>
> root@linux:/home/clay > less /etc/fstab
> /dev/sda4 /zip ext2 defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda4 /zipdos vfat defaults 0 0
>
> TIA
> Clay Stapleton
>
>
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