[techtalk] Parallel port zip drives under RH 7.1 (2.4 kernel change, perhaps)

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:55:01AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Daniel Manrique thought:
> > I went into Preferences->Information->SCSI in KDE2 and found this:
> > 
> > Attached devices:
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: IOMEGA   Model:  ZIP 100           Rev:  D.09
> >   Type:  Direct-Access                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > 
> > I saw the SCSI ID of 6, but /dev/sda6 doesn't work either.  Obviously, the OS 
> > knows it's there.  How do I make it work?
> 
> There's no relationship between the SCSI ID of a device and the partition
> within that device. All zip disks (notice, *disks*) use the fourth
> partition. So it would always be /dev/sdX4.
> 
> As for that mysterious X, that also doesn't necessarily have to do with
> the SCSI id for the device. I have a SCSI zipdrive on ID 5 and it's not

Incidentally, did you try /dev/sd[bcde]4 ?

Does this ppa module mean I can hook up a parallel port CDRW also?

Conor
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