[ale] Turning on my zip drive?

[Wandered Inn]

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
> Ok,
>   This laptop doesn't doesn't appear to like me building it a new kernel.
> Every combination I've done so far just reboots after about 10 dots after
> I tell it to boot.  I have no network support so I can't ftp in a new
> kernel and I need a new floppy.  I do have a Zip+ which I can use to copy
> from my other computer.  The only problem is I can't access my Zip drive.
> If I do an "insmod ppa" it says the device is already in use and that's
> about it.
> 
>   Anyone know what order I need to load the modules in so that I can
> access my zip?

This is the way I load them and it works for me, YMMS...

insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi/scsi_mod.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi/sd_mod.o
insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi/ppa.o

I'm not even sure that all three are needed.  I found them in the scsi
directory, so I loaded them.  It's worked ever since.


> 
> Robert
> 
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> Robert L. Harris                |    Windows is to Unix
> Senior System Administrator II  |      what 'hooked on phonics'
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> 
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> 
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> 
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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