Using a iomega zip drive in FC1

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:39:26PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> I have two systems using FC1. One has an internal zip drive which
> seems to be associated with /dev/hdd. That seems to work OK.
> 
> The other has a iomega zip drive attached to the parallel port and
> then the parallel cable is fed through to the printer. This one seems
> more of a mystery to get to work. Does anyone have any tips?

There are two different drivers for the parallel port ZIP drive. ppa
is one, for older drives, and imm, I believe, is for more recent
ones. So, e.g:

modprobe ppa

as root.

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