Re: iomega zip disk (100)
Mark Wright wrote:
> There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel,
> IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra
> install*, this is trivial...
> * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a
> 'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a
> error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something
> like that) are missing. It looks like some sort of dynamic linking problem,
> but I don't know enough about linux dynamic linking to diagnose the problem.
> Yet I can put ppa in /etc/modules and it works fine. I'd rather load and
> unload the parallel ZIP driver dynamically, since I usually connect the
> drive after I've booted.
I had to use tecra for my laptop and this problem does not occur, perhaps
because the plugin zip drive is ide and not parallel port?
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Charles B. (Ben) Cranston
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