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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:

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

So where is the problem? imm seems to get loaded.

Quote:> instead of ppa. But when I typed modprobe imm, nothing seemed to
> happen. I just got a new prompt.

That's how it should be. You get a message only in case of an error.
It won't tell you if it run successfully. You have to check that by
yourself with "lsmod".

How did your mount command look like? What message did you get, if
any? Your mount command should look similar to this:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip100

(running the mount command like this is only allowed to the user root)

If you don't know which filesystem to use try "auto". It would look
like this:
mount -t auto /dev/sda4 /zip100

(read "man mount" to get more information about which filesystems
are supported)

It doesn't have to be sda4 where your Zip drive can be found. If
you can't access it with sda4 try sdb4, sdc4, ...
SCSI-ID and letter (a...z) are not related to each other. Which
device gets which letter depends on the order in which Linux finds
them at boot time.

HTH

Dragan

Dragan,

Thanks for the tips. I'll give them a shot over the weekend. I think I
was expecting some kind of positive feedback after the modprobe thing
and when I got nothing I assumed there was something wrong. Like I said
- total newbie, but always happy to learn.

Jackie