[ale] Iomega Zip 250 parallel support?

Glenn C. Lasher Jr. glasher at nycap.rr.com
Wed Jan 31 06:41:40 EST 2001



I've never used a Zip 250, but if it is built like the Zip 100, then you
don't want paride, you want imm or ppa.  The Zip's are not parallel IDE,
they're parallel SCSI.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Fulton Green wrote:

> OK, so now I'm trying to back off approx. 228 MB worth of stuff onto,
> appropriately enough, an Iomega Zip 250 (more storage than the original
> Zip) hooked up through a parallel cable. I'm running a late test of the
> 2.4 kernel (2.4.0-test13-pre4 if you must know). I've loaded the paride
> module (through modprobe, which loads in the basic par. support as well)
> and the ide-floppy driver. What am I missing?
> 
> I've seen some notes on www.torque.net, as well as the mini-HOWTO, but both
> appear to be horribly out of date.
> 
> TIA.
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