[lug] Zip Plus drives?

[Robert L. Harris]

I have a ZipPlus (connected via parallel) to my desktop.

Compile in parallel port support, then compile in the iomega drivers,
located under the scsi controller section.  I used the "imm" for the
newer drives just fine.  Once the module is inserted for me, it just 
detects a new scsi controller and then the drive, right in line, 
probably /dev/sda with the windows partition being /dev/sda4.

Robert

Thus spake Elyse M. Grasso (emgrasso at data-raptors.com):

> 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
> 
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