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    Does anyone know if the parallel port zip drive is supported by LINUX?
I have seen in the HARDWARE - HOW TO that the SCSI version is supported but
I was wondering if the parallel version was supported as well.

:     Does anyone know if the parallel port zip drive is supported by LINUX?
: I have seen in the HARDWARE - HOW TO that the SCSI version is supported but
: I was wondering if the parallel version was supported as well.

It is. See the ZIP mini-howto on

http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive

I am using one with Linux and it's working fine.

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: >

: > :     Does anyone know if the parallel port zip drive is supported by LINUX?
: > : I have seen in the HARDWARE - HOW TO that the SCSI version is supported but
: > : I was wondering if the parallel version was supported as well.
: >
: > It is. See the ZIP mini-howto on
: >
: > http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive
: >
: > I am using one with Linux and it's working fine.
: >

: Well, I also have a printer on my parallel port and that doesnt (didnt)
: work with the 2.0.30 redhat kernel. I was wondering if that might be
: available in 5.0? (works in win$95).

I don't think there is support for printer chaining in Linux yet. Then I am talking about the kernel, I don't know if the Redhat dist. will include it.

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~ Work: +47 73 59 70 54  http://stud.ntnu.no/~aw/     correcting.        ~
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The chaining of PP devices is being implemented by a module called
parport, which is currently included in the 2.1.xx kernels.  There
used to be a patch against the 2.0.30 kernel, but it's far out of
date, and doesn't work with the most recent versions of the ppa (zip
drive) driver.  If you need chaining, consider checking out the 2.1.xx
kernel.  If you don't want to do that, you can still use multiple
parallel port devices by compiling the appropriate drivers (lp, ppa,
and whatever else) as modules, and manually doing modprobe, and rmmod
to make sure that only one of them is loaded at a time.  The procedure
discussed in the otherwise far outdated ZIP-HOWTO is still relevant on
this point.

Jeff Anderson