[linux-help] Re: Setting up a Zip drive with Linux...How?

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another option is to get a second parallel port. That is what I did when I
was using a zip drive on the same machine as the printer. You can get
a second parallel port for a few bucks (probably at the Sat. sale) and
that will solve a lot of problems.


On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:33:33PM +0000, ahughes wrote:
> You can use a scsi module - ppa.o, I think. The last I know, you couldn't
> have the printer support and the zip support in the kernel at the
> same time, so building both as modules would be the only way to have
> access to both the zip and the printer. You'll need to remove the printer
> module to use the zip disk, and remove the ppa.o module to use the
> printer. At least, that's the way it was a year ago. Good luck!
> 
> Ann
> 
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> > Haha.
> > 
> > Leave it up to Apple to screw things up more than necessary :-)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:37:33PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> > > At 01:38 PM 4/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Once the proper support is in the kernel, you will need to mount 
> > > >/dev/sda4
> > > >on a normally-formatted Zip disk (for some reason unknown to me, a Zip 
> > > >disk
> > > >is by default formatted to use the 4th partition... you can reformat and
> > > >change that, and it still works fine in other OSes, as far as I can 
> > > >tell...
> > > >but if you buy a pre-formatted Zip disk, you'll typically need to use
> > > >/dev/sda4 instead of /dev/sda1).
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I forget where I read this, but I remember that Zip and Jaz drives start 
> > > of
> > > the 4th partition because of Macintosh.  Something about Macintosh using
> > > the first three partitions for system information and data starts getting
> > > stored on the 4th partition.
> > > 
> > > Ryan
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