it is enabled in the BIOS and tests out OK. I'm gonna try to boot under
Windows and see if I can't find out any IO/IRQ info that might be helpful.
You're probably right about the zip100...its a port issue, not the
drive. Now that I think of it, I'd bet LPR would have trouble too.
Again, thanks a heep,
-Jeff. :)
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:12:22 +0100
> From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
> To: Jeff Kopmanis <kopmanis@eecs.umich.edu>
> Cc: linux-parport@torque.net
> Subject: Re: [PARPORT] parport zip drive in RH7.1
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Kopmanis wrote:
>
> > > What does 'dmesg' say?
> >
> > I attached a copy of the listing, after doing the following:
> >
> > modprobe parport
> > modprobe imm
>
> The parport_pc module can't find your parallel port, by the looks of
> it. Is it enabled in your BIOS?
>
> > I have a Zip250 external parallel drive. I was only bemoaning the ease of
> > which I got the Zip100 to work, and how much trouble this thing is. Sorry
> > for the confusion.
>
> I think that getting a Zip100 to work on this machine would be as much
> trouble, as the problem seems to be with parport_pc detecting the
> parallel port, rather than with the driver detecting the device.
>
> Tim.
> */
>
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