Zip Drive 100 & 250 Parallel Port Setup (Answered)

[sagefire]

-su to root
-mkdir /mnt/zip
-nano /etc/rc.local
-put "insmod imm" in the file
-nano /etc/fstab
-put "/dev/sdb /mnt/zip auto noauto,users 0 0" in the file

reboot to check that imm loads properly at boot
right clicking the desktop will now show you the Zip Drive

Fedora handles the drive better than other distros that I have used. Using Disk Management on the System Tools menu, you can format your zips for any format. In other distros, I had to replace "auto" in fstab with "vfat" to get it to work

[Avatraxiom]

Why are you using an insmod in your rc.local, instead of an entry in your modules.conf and then using /usr/bin/generate-modprobe.conf ?

Other than that, it looks great.

-M

[sagefire]

Because I am a former SuSE user and that was how I used to get it to work there :oops:

[aitrus]

Older Zip drives actually use the ipp module instead of imm. They also require scsi and scsi-disk, and the device is /dev/sda4.

j

[Trek1701]

Originally Posted by aitrus

Older Zip drives actually use the ipp module instead of imm. They also require scsi and scsi-disk, and the device is /dev/sda4.

j

Hey...

I'm with a problem... I have to boot the fedora with a zip disc at the drive to work, otherwise fedora reports that the device doesn't exist.
I've mounted the drive as intructed, added the /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100.0 vfat noauto,user 0 0 to fstab and ad these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

# zip drive module
/sbin/modprobe imm
/sbin/modprobe vfat

I found this at iomega...
https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/cg...lva=1282&p_li=

Thanks