[lug] Zip Plus drives?

[Elyse M. Grasso]

Does anyone have any experience with Zip Plus drives (or Zip 250s, which are 
supposed to use the same driver)? 

My Windows NT laptop did something ugly to its partition formatting on Dec 31.
I wasn't about to try loading WinNt, followed by all of the service packs and 
drivers, on Y2k day, so I put KRUD 6.1 on it. (Went on in one swoop.)

Also Eric's Ultimate Solitaire from Loki, which works fine except that I haven't
bothered trying to get the sound drivers working... laptops are for playing
 with while watching TV.

However... the laptop's main function other than learning NT admin and playing 
solitaire was running Quicken and Turbotax and all of my files are on Zip disks.

If I could get at my files, I'd experiment with cbb or GNUcash, (or Quicken 
with WINE) but the driver module doesn't seem to recognise that the drive is 
there. It doesn't complain, it just doesn't see it. 

The Plus uses a parallel/SCSI kind of interface. I don't have anything 
else running that would interfere with the parallel part, but the internal 
CD-ROM drive also uses a SCSI driver, and I'm not sure how to check for 
conflicts.

I would appreciate any advice.

The laptop is a Compaq Armada 1510 (32 megs of ram,120 MHZ Pentium, 1.2 gig 
hard drive, and I use a Linksys Cardbus NIC with the tulip module).

The messages look like:
imm: Version2.03 for Linux 2.0.0
imm: parport reports no devices
scsi: 0 hosts
/lib/modules/2/2/12-20/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

Thanks
Elyse Grasso