Hi,

I've installed Red Hat 8.0 and it works a treat except for one or two niggles.

The first is that I'm having trouble mounting my Zip drive. It's a Zip 100 and goes through the parallel port. (I also have my printer connected to it - which also doesn't work at the moment - the second niggle).

I've seen some information on this, but most of it assumes more knowledge than a newbie. I gather it involves programming the shell, which I don't know, but have started to learn by looking at www.linuxcommand.org (good site!).

Is there any really, really basic article on how to do this, or can someone explain in very simple terms what is involved? Or should I just wait a bit and get some more skills under my belt before doing this?

thanks in advance

Try this:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardw...Zip_Drive.html

Change the fstab to vfat instead of msdos.

Hi,

I tried the solution to mounting a zip drive at

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Hardw...Zip_Drive.html

I opened Konsole, and entered:

mkdir /mnt/zip <enter>

then

insmod parport <enter>

at which point I got a message which said that it did not recognise "insmod" as a command.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance

You have to be root... also try modprobe, the more gentle form of insmod, but insmod should still be compiled on just about any distro. You might have to modprobe imm or ppa too.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi,

I've tried modprobe and insmode, logged in as root.

I'm still getting a message saying that it does not recognise either command.

Any ideas?

cheers
milhouse

You're su'ed into root right?

/sbin/modprobe

You need to type in the full path probably.

Cheers,

Finegan

I assume that you had bought the parallel zip drive which wasn't labeled with Zip 100 plus on it.
If it's the case, then add following line to your rc.local fine which was under /etc/ directory.
<add> /sbin/modprobe ppa <enter>
If rc.local wasn't in /etc/ directory.
Simply type "updatedb" and do "which rc.local" or "locate rc.local".

Secondly if do have a parallel zip drive with Zip 100 Plus labeled on it or above instruction doesn't work or nothing shows up under dmesg . Then undo everything above and add
"/sbin/modprobe imm" in rc.local. then do dmesg.
See if there is anything appears which relates to iomega zip 100 plus. If it did, type "hwbrowser" under hard drives section. There should be a device named iomega *.
Then you need creat a directory named "zip" in /mnt/
add line "<device-source> /mnt/zip auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
" in /etc/fstab. Everything should be fine from so on...
cheerss
Let's me know if which were problems!

Okay following this post i sucsessfully mounted my zip 100 drive now how do i eject it!!!!!!

assuming it showed up as /dev/sda4:

eject /dev/sda4

Funny huh? I don't remember how well these thing take the eject command, I only ever have to use it on Sparcs that don't have a button for the floppy, it might be /dev/sda

It'll refuse if the drive is mounted still, so make sure to:

umount /mnt/zip

Or wherever you have it.

Cheers,

Finegan