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 -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN | Fax: +34-63983385
