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buzza24

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Iomega Zip Drive troubles
« on: 1 March 2003, 21:16 »
Hello I am having some trouble once again.

I am using Red Hat 8 and would like to use my Zip Drive. Wat do i have to do to get it working?

Please Help Me.

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« Reply #1 on: 1 March 2003, 12:24 »
What kind of zip drive?  Parallel port,  SCSI internal, SCSI external, ATAPI IDE drive, Non-ATAPI IDE?
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« Reply #2 on: 1 March 2003, 18:52 »
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« Reply #3 on: 2 March 2003, 01:23 »
It is a Parallel Zip 100Mb Drive.
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« Reply #4 on: 3 March 2003, 00:21 »
The above link to the HOWTO should help you.  In brief, you need scsi modules loaded, and the ppa module loaded before the lp module.

[ March 02, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

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