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HI Gang:

    I have read the FAQ's and the How-To's. Maybe I missed something but
it seems that I am going to HAVE to re-build my kernal to get this to
work. I have RH5.1. Could someone post (or e-mail) the exact steps
involved so that I can get on with my life.

    ps for Red Hat

    This could be a question during the installation:

    Do you have any ZIP drives connected to the parallel port(Y/N)?

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Try entering insmod ppa. It could be that simple.
IF you get a port conflict, try rmmod lp, then insmod ppa.

IF lp is part of the kernel instead of a module, then you may need to
rebuild the kernel as you stated earlier.

It is pretty easy to do. See the quick start section of the HOWTO.

Cheers
Kyle Dansie
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Linux Rules
          ZIP drive Mini-HOWTO
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
                    or
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html                                  
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This may sound a bit silly, but it seems to have helped me.  I've taken to
inserting a disk in the zip drive during various configuration and boot
sessions.  It seems that Linux has a much easier time detecting that the
PPA Zip drive exists if there's a disk in the drive.

Hope this helps.

-Bill

Quote:> HI Gang:

>     I have read the FAQ's and the How-To's. Maybe I missed something but
> it seems that I am going to HAVE to re-build my kernal to get this to
> work. I have RH5.1. Could someone post (or e-mail) the exact steps
> involved so that I can get on with my life.

>     ps for Red Hat

>     This could be a question during the installation:

>     Do you have any ZIP drives connected to the parallel port(Y/N)?

I'm just going to try this this afternoon.
However, I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "No" --
redhat-5.1 comes with the ppa module
(in /lib/modules/2.0.34-0.6/scsi/ ),
which I think is all that is needed.

Quote:>    ps for Red Hat
>    This could be a question during the installation:
>    Do you have any ZIP drives connected to the parallel port(Y/N)?

More to the point -- for some reason RedHat
seem to have removed the mini-HOWTO ZIP-Drive
(available on sunsite)
leaving ZIP-Install which is useless for this purpose.

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Timothy Murphy  

tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Quote:> More to the point -- for some reason RedHat
> seem to have removed the mini-HOWTO ZIP-Drive
> (available on sunsite)
> leaving ZIP-Install which is useless for this purpose.

The zip-drive mini-HOWTO was in the unsupported catagory for a while.
Thats why it stopped appearing on the RedHat distribution disks. This
problem has been corrected ;-). Hopefully the document will be on the
next Redhat release.

If you have redhat, then you have the module. Try

insmod ppa
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt

See the HOWTO for more details if needed.

Cheers,
Kyle
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Linux Rules
          ZIP drive Mini-HOWTO
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
                    or
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html                                  
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Kyle,

Quote:> insmod ppa
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt

If insmode ppa gives you "Initialization of ppa failed", then try
- lsmod
- check for lp (line printer module)
- if present, then issue rmmod lp
- try again

If mount doesn't work, try:
- fdisk /dev/sda
- type p and look what kind of partition you have on your Zip drive. For
example, mine give:

Quote:

> Command (m for help): p

> Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

>    Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1            1        1       96    98288   83  Linux native

That means I have a ext2 partition on the Zip ! If none of these are OK,
then I think you'll have to recompile the Kernel with the SCSI support
and the ZIP driver compiled as a module. Check the MINIHOW-TO.

Hope it help you.

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Jean-Francois