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Topic: parallel Zip 100 help, Can't setup parallel zip100 in DSL

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altongary

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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,15:13

I'm a complete newbie to linux, and I have a Compaq Armada 1560 dm with a 4 gig hd and 80 megs of ram. Installing DSL 0.901 took all of 15 minutes (that was enough for me to say goodbye to microsoft forever) and breathed new life into my laptop (it's never been this fast before). However, I've been unable to get DSL to recognize my zip 100 parallel port drive. I followed the directions at Iomega for linux drivers and as best as I can tell, the reason it isn't working is because I have an ECP port (bios won't let me change it). In the HowTo's I've found, time and again, that people make mention of a ppa upgrade that works with ECP parallel ports, but the links to where I can obtain this are all dead.
Can anyone help me please?

P.S. How do I configure sound so that it works without my having to run a sudo modprobe sb command from an Xshell?

Thanks

clacker

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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,16:33

altongary, you could try typing this into a bash shell and see if it works. Make sure that the drive is turned on and has a disk in it when you try to start the zip drive drivers you had.

Code Sample

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/zip
modprobe ppa
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
ls /mnt/zip
exit

I know nothing about EPC ports vs. anything else, but this works on my machine.

altongary

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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,23:20

Thanks, but after typing mount /dev/sda4/mnt/zip
I received the error can't find /dev/sda4/mnt/zip in etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.

clacker

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Posted: Dec. 17 2004,00:26

Are you missing a space in there? It should be:

mount /dev/sda4 <SPACE> /mnt/zip

/dev/sda4 and /mnt/zip are two separate things.

Did the zip drive make any noise when you ran modprobe?

caulktel

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Posted: Dec. 17 2004,01:47

altongary,

As far as your sound is concerned, did you do a hard drive install? If so just place the command sbin/modprobe sb into /opt/bootlocal.sh.
If you are booting from the cd, do the same thing only make sure to backup from the control panel to a thumb drive or your hard drive, so that DSL will issue that command everytime you boot.

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Joel
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