Re: Severe Modem/Parallel Zip Drive problems.

["Mike Abney" <mabney netexplorer com>]

Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> Wow.  What an ordeal.

You're telling me.  ;-)

> Did you try browsing through kernel config for a weird board
> support issue with your I/O controller or something?
> The only thing I can think of as to why 5.2 would have
> previously worked and now doesn't is that you previously
> were running a custom kernel.
>
> Sound plausible?

Well, when I installed 5.2 the last time (when it worked) it
automatically recognized my Zip drive during the installation/setup. 
This was, in fact, an improvement over 5.0 where I did have to do a
little extra work.  So, no, there was no custom kernel needed at the
time.

In trying to think about things that might have changed in between that
time and now here is all I can come up with:
  - Switched from a mediocre PCI video card to the AGP
    Riva TNT card I have now.  I think this was done after
    the working 5.2 installation.
  - Added the CD-RW drive.  Again, I'm not sure whether this
    was before or after the working 5.2 installation.
  - Changed the "Plug and Play OS?" BIOS setting during
    all this installation stuff, but I am almost positive
    I set it back.
Tonight and/or over the weekend I'll play around with installing the (up
to) 3!=6 times it will take me to test all the combinations.  I *really*
was hoping for a good pointer as to a likely candidate for the problem
before giving out this information because I'm not really convinced that
any of these things (except, maybe for the BIOS setting) should be
causing this much trouble.

Anyway, thanks for the response.


~Mike