>BTW, what does modprobe sg do?
It seems to help probe generic scsi commands. At least it does on one of my
CDRWs.
sg.o is generic scsi support.
Kirk
>
>> Not 100% sure, (if this is an IDE device) but if I recall correctly this is
>> an ide-scsi device. You may want to try to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the
>> line append="hdx=ide-scsi" where x is the drive letter of the zip. and
>> add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local /sbin/modprobe sg and /sbin/modprobe
>> ide-scsi. Then reboot your system, (this is necessary). Your drive should
>> be something like /dev/sdx (not sure on the device tail letter) after the
>> reboot. You can take a look at dmesg after reboot to make sure you drive
>> was seen. The you may want to make a mount point like, mkdir /mnt/zip and
>> a symlink in /dev like ln -s sdx zip and edit /etc/fstab and create an
>> entry for it (you could use linuxconf to do this under access local drive).
>>
>> Best of luck.
>> Kirk
>>
>
>Redhat specific instructions are available on the net, I don't remember
where. For an
>external zip drive running redhat 6.0, I put the following at the end of
rc.local.
>/sbin/modprobe ppa
>
>although, I have also seen
>/sbin/insmod parport
>/sbin/insmod ppa
>
>If it is the tools disk, it might be partitioned on sda1. All other disks
for msdos are
>typically sda4. You can use fdisk to reformat the disk or configure mtools
to use
>either partition. I like mtools since you don't have to mount/umount the
disk. In
>/etc/mtools.conf put:
>drive z: file="/dev/sda" partition=4
>drive z: file="/dev/sda" partition=1
>
>and set your own environment variables MTOOLS_LOWER_CASE 1 if all
uppercase filenames
>tend to annoy you. (This only happens with files copied in DOS.
>
>>
>> What about an external parallel port? I have tried the how to and it does
>> not work! I have configured kernel to enable scsi support ( using ide hds)
>> and iomega zip support parallel printer support etc.
>> I type the insmod to insert parallel port support, before this i make sure
>> that the scsi mods are loaded. I get an error message saying that kernel
>> does not acknowledge /sda4 as a block device, try insmod?
>
>Good Luck,
>Juan
>
>
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