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Hi, I hope someone can help me out here.

I'm running Redhat 7.1 (i386) with a Zip 250. After browsing the
Iomega board yesterday, I found these instructions from a poster:

1> Open a terminal
2> Type mkdir /mnt/zip100.0
3> Type modprobe ppa This is for older Zip100ppt drives Newer Zip
dirves would be imm
4> Next type lsmod look for the ppa or imm listed
5> Type mount /dev/sd*4 /mnt.zip100.0 The * represents SCSI ID for
expel
mount /dev.sda4 /mnt/zip100.0
if fat or vfat are not active with the kerel type it like this
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0
6> unmount the media
umount /dev/sd*4 again the * stand for you SCSI ID

- which I followed but had no joy. I ran lsmod and got back:

imm 9808 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 95104 1 [imm]
parport_pc 17968 1 (autoclean)
parport 25952 1 [imm parport_pc]

and then I typed dmesg and got:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
scsi0 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: J.45
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

So I went through the intructions again, making sure I used imm
instead of ppa. But when I typed modprobe imm, nothing seemed to
happen. I just got a new prompt.

I'm getting desparate, I made a philosophical decision to switch to
Linux, but I need the content of my Zip disks. Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Jackie McGhee

I have the parallel interface working with a Jaz drive with Slackware4.0 at
the office, but had to re-compile the kernel to add support for the Jaz.

Have you tried plugging it into the port, turning it on, and rebooting? On
the boot watch the messages and see if it is recognized. You will probably
still have to mount it with mount /dev/sda4 /directory_to_mount_in until you
put it in fstab, as I did, at which point you can simply mount /dev/sda4.

Another option might be a SCSI card if your Zip will run via SCSI, but yours
may only be parallel. At any rate you should be able to get it working, but
may have to re-compile the kernel to add the support.

...Edwin

Quote:> Hi, I hope someone can help me out here.

> I'm running Redhat 7.1 (i386) with a Zip 250. After browsing the
> Iomega board yesterday, I found these instructions from a poster:

> 1> Open a terminal
> 2> Type mkdir /mnt/zip100.0
> 3> Type modprobe ppa This is for older Zip100ppt drives Newer Zip
> dirves would be imm
> 4> Next type lsmod look for the ppa or imm listed
> 5> Type mount /dev/sd*4 /mnt.zip100.0 The * represents SCSI ID for
> expel
> mount /dev.sda4 /mnt/zip100.0
> if fat or vfat are not active with the kerel type it like this
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0
> 6> unmount the media
> umount /dev/sd*4 again the * stand for you SCSI ID

> - which I followed but had no joy. I ran lsmod and got back:

> imm 9808 0 (unused)
> scsi_mod 95104 1 [imm]
> parport_pc 17968 1 (autoclean)
> parport 25952 1 [imm parport_pc]

> and then I typed dmesg and got:

> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
> imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
> scsi0 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: J.45
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

> So I went through the intructions again, making sure I used imm
> instead of ppa. But when I typed modprobe imm, nothing seemed to
> happen. I just got a new prompt.

> I'm getting desparate, I made a philosophical decision to switch to
> Linux, but I need the content of my Zip disks. Please help.

> Thanks in advance,

> Jackie McGhee

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Edwin,

Thanks much for this. I'll give it a shot over the weekend. A bit
daunted by the thought of recompiling the kernel, but if needs must :) I
can always re-install.

Hopefully,

Jackie

Your distribution may already have that support in the kernel, but Slackware
doesn't without re-compiling.

...Edwin

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:48:15 +0100, Jackie McGhee

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