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[ILUG] zip drives...

[ILUG] zip drives...

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Wed Nov 3 11:50:15 GMT 1999


> ok, to get a zip drive going i do the following on a redhat 6.1 box:
> 
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc
> insmod ppa
> mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos
> 
> to put it mildly, that bites.  how can i just do the latter?  what do i
> tell /etc/conf.modules to load those three modules when /dev/sda* gets
> accessed?

AFAIK, "alias scsi_hostadapter ppa" should do it, and a "depmod -a", of
course.

          Colm

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