[techtalk] parallel zip drive

Marlene E. Morley marlenem at neptune.css.swau.edu
Tue Oct 5 18:46:38 EST 1999


On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Deb Bassett wrote:
>I followed the howtos but still haven't sorted it. The problem seems to
>be that kernel does not recognise sda4 as a block device. Any ideas???
>maybe I missed something.... :)

When you compiled the kernel, turn SCSI support on, go under SCSI Low-level
drivers and choose Iomega Parrall Zip Drive. 

If you did that already, check to see if you compiled it into the kernel or
as a module. If it's a module, then you'll have to modprobe the ppa (I
think?) module.

-Marlene


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
  Marlene Morley   marlenem at neptune.css.swau.edu   marlenem at cosmic.swau.edu 
  Computer Science Major, Southwestern Adventist University.    Keene, TX 

   The wise learn many things from their enemies.
   		--Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC


************
techtalk at linuxchix.org   http://www.linuxchix.org




More information about the Techtalk mailing list