[PARPORT] parallel-port ZIP-100 drive problems

From: Paul Moroz (moroz@engr.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 15:06:26 EDT

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    Dear everybody at this forum,

    I'm looking for an advice to resolve the problem with the parallel-port
    Iomega ZIP-100 drive. I'm using RedHat6.2 with the kernel 2.2.14-5.0.
    Initially there were no parallel port modules installed. When I tried to
    install the ppa module, I got the following error message:

    /root> lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    lockd 30792 1 (autoclean)
    sunrpc 53316 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
    3c59x 19048 1 (autoclean)
    nls_iso8859-1 2244 3 (autoclean)
    nls_cp437 3752 3 (autoclean)
    vfat 9308 3 (autoclean)
    fat 30784 3 (autoclean) [vfat]
    aic7xxx 136184 8

    /root> modprobe ppa
    /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource
    busy
    /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/scsi/ppa.o: insmod
    /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/scsi/ppa.o failed
    /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0smp/scsi/ppa.o: insmod ppa failed

    Then I tried to install the imm module as well as lp, and they installed
    okay:

    /root> lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    lp 5324 0 (unused)
    parport_probe 3240 0 (autoclean)
    parport_pc 7340 2 (autoclean)
    imm 9552 0 (unused)
    parport 8068 2 [lp parport_probe parport_pc imm]
    lockd 30792 1 (autoclean)
    sunrpc 53316 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
    3c59x 19048 1 (autoclean)
    nls_iso8859-1 2244 3 (autoclean)
    nls_cp437 3752 3 (autoclean)
    vfat 9308 3 (autoclean)
    fat 30784 3 (autoclean) [vfat]
    aic7xxx 136184 8

    However, the mount command fails (maybe I cannot find the correct letter
    for the
    device?). The example output is:

    /root> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip
    mount: /dev/sdb4 is not a valid block device

    I cannot use /dev/sda4, as it's usually advised, because that is one of
    partitions on my disk.

    Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

    Paul Moroz
    moroz@engr.wisc.edu

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