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Re: kernel need to be reconfigured for Zip drive ?



On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:47:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
> Hello, I finally got it to work ... by enable  SCSI disk support on the
> kernel (sr_mod), then the device becomes /dev/sda4.  I never thought of
> this since the drive I have is not SCSI.  I did try to recompile kernel
> with ide-floppy but same result, it doesn't work either.  Now that it
> works .. I am happy.  Thanks for all your inputs.

ide-scsi will grab all non-harddrive IDE devices by default, including
CD-ROM drives, DVD-ROM drivers and Zip drives.

> This is a weird behavior because I have another zip drive and it works
> without any addition work on another machine.  Must be different models
> or soemthing.

Do you have CD burner in this machine, but not in the other?

-rob

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