On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Jonathan A. Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Phillip wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard of getting a zip drive working under Linux? I'm mostly
> > interseted in the parallel version, but I also welcome info about the
> > SCSI version.
> > TIA
> >
>
> Take a look at kernel 1.3.75, I saw a patch that included ZIP parallel
> support while I was browsing. Hmmm. Strangely enough, it's located in
> the SCSI config section. Found this blurb in linux/Documentation/
> Configure.help on it.
>
> --------------snip--------------
> IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support
> CONFIG_SCSI_PPA
> This driver supports the parallel port version of IOMEGA's ZIP
> drive (a 100Mb removable media device). For more infomation
> about this driver and how to use it you should read the file
> drivers/scsi/README.ppa. You should also read the SCSI-HOWTO,
> which is available via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in
> the directory /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. This driver is also available
> as a module which can be inserted in and removed from the
> running kernel whenever you want. If you want to compile it as a
> module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
> --------------snip--------------
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Jonathan _ _
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