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Re: Help with Zip drive



On Friday 20 May 2005 15:39, Jerry Turba wrote:
> I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive [snip]
> I have problems when I  try to write to it. After the cp command 
> the system hangs for a while. When it comes back I have lost the use of
> the keyboard but not the mouse, and I have to reboot.

Wild guess, but... are you sure the write protect tab on the actual ZIP disk 
is disabled?  I think the option to detect write protected drives isn't 
enabled by default in Linux.  That might be only with with USB devices, or 
something, though :)

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Lee.

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