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> Hi:

> reply on ng.

> I am totally new to Linux, have to say that I really love it alot more
> than Windows!!!!   However, since I am new I don't know how to config
> hardware....I really hope that someone outthere can help me with
> installing, config and mounting with Iomega's ext 250M Parallet Port Zip
> drive.  I had gone through many many pages of HOW TO and still can't
> find the answer at all.

> Here is a simple list of hardware I have and hope it helps.

> ASUS BX 440 MB, Celeron 300A, Viper770 V-card etc (don't know if any of
> these will help)
> Only 1 HD on IDE1
> 2 CD ROM (but only can mount the primary but I don't need the second
> one) on IDE2
> No scsi card, no printer, Lan connection which works fine.  And floppy
> and cdrom works fine mount and umount *cdrom is hp8110i but can't set it
> to writer yet.  Still need help on that too*

> There is no /dev/sda4 .. line in my fstab file yet and my boot up sweep
> so fast that I can't catch whether the boot up recognize my zip drive or
> not.
> I already have the line as  ppa host.... etc from the manual in my
> conf.modules file

> When I do a insmode ppa I see about 5 lines of something.. I am at work
> now so I can't type out but if someone is willing to read what I got in
> there I can do a capture at home.  However those 5 lines doesn't seems
> to be anything associate with parallel port.

> /mnt/zip is created

> when I try to do a mount -t vfat (or msdos) /dev/sba4 /mnt I receive an
> error saying something like the block is not recognized ro something
> (will also do a capture to follow up)

> Currently there is no entry in the fstab file for the like "/dev/sda4
> /zip vfat user,noauto 0 0"  should I add that manually?

> I tried to download the imm and zipplus drivers .. no luck becasue when
> doing a make it can't find any /usr/src/linux/.config ... etc

> what else am I missing?  Please tell me in more detail step since I am a
> rookie on this...

> If someone is successful setting up the iomega 250 parallel drive  on
> Redhat 6 (or even the 100M which I assume works the same)
> please share this with me....

> btw, I also have trouble setting my hp8110i (current cdrom) as a CD
> writer ....if anyone did that with Redhat 6 please also let me know

> Many many thanks to you all if I can get my Zip and Cd writer to work!!!
> =)

> Bono

> > Since you have the ZIP 250 drive, you should be using IMM rather than
> > the
> > older PPA.  Also, instead of 'insmod imm' do a 'modprobe imm'...  it
> > worked for me and I didn't even have to edit my conf.modules file.

> But what if you want kmod to do the work for you.  Then what do you put in
> conf.modules?  I tried setting scsi_hostadapter (and some other things I made
> up as I went along) but none of them worked.  Just curious.  A modprobe in
> rc.local works for now but I just hate to see "all that" memory wasted when
> the drive isn't being used;)

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