Mounting external Zip

[tpage]

I'm having trouble mounting my parallel port zip drive. I've tried the following to load the parallel port module:

$ modprobe ppa

and received:

/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

I also tried:

$ insmod ppa

and received the same message...could someone who's done this before walk me through the process of mounting a parallel port zip drive...thanks in advance...

[tpage]

sorry...i forgot to mention i'm running Red Hat 6.0 and it's an Iomega zip (not that anyone else really makes a zip drive!)

Originally posted by tpage:
I'm having trouble mounting my parallel port zip drive. I've tried the following to load the parallel port module:

$ modprobe ppa

and received:

/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

I also tried:

$ insmod ppa

and received the same message...could someone who's done this before walk me through the process of mounting a parallel port zip drive...thanks in advance...

[CRT_Monkey]

I'm not familiar with RH at all but Mandrake 7.1 and .2 recognized and configured my Zip drive with no prob at all. Ya might give that a try.

...or not. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif



[This message has been edited by CRT_Monkey (edited 08 November 2000).]

[tpage]

Originally posted by CRT_Monkey:
I'm not familiar with RH at all but Mandrake 7.1 and .2 recognized and configured my Zip drive with no prob at all. Ya might give that a try.



Got it, instead of using:

$ modprobe ppa

i used:

$ modprobe imm

then mounted the zip and everything was fine...i guess there is a different module you have to use (imm)...