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Re: Help with Zip drive



Hi Jerry,

maybe you should use the imm module rather than ppa. It depends on the type of
drive, just try.

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Jerry Turba wrote:
> I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive. I have the ppa module loaded,
> along with scsi support, scsi disk support. I do not have any scsi drives,
> only the zip on /dev/sda4. The zip is recognized during boot, and I can
> read it, format it with the iomegaware tool (iw), mount it, all without
> problem. 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.
> (...)

HTH
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller

 All generalisations are dangerous, including this one.



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