![]() ![]() The only significant difference I can find is that Deb still calls IDE drives /dev/hd? and SCSI emulated drives /dev/sd?, while Opensuse lists both IDE and SCSI emulated drives as /dev/sd?. It worked under win 98, OpenLinux 1.3 and 2.4, SuSE 7.3 through 9.3, and Opensuse 10.3 (for about 1 year). I’ve had this external zip 250 since about 1999. What is the model number, manufacturing date and place of manufacture on yours? So it looks as though, between 19 possibly, Iomega changed the firmware and you have to use the appropriate kernel module to go with it. Modprobe imm: does work correctly, the module loads, the drive runs, the disk is registered and is veiwable in Dolphin. Modprobe ppa: does not work although the module loads correctly according to dmesg. With #2 (which has S/N RRCM19900K and has a manufacturing date of in Malaysia): Modprobe ppa: does work correctly the module loads, the drive runs, the disk is registered and is viewable in, say, Dolphin. Modprobe imm: does not work although the module loads correctly according to dmesg. With #1 (which has S/N PRDH306GAK and I think may have been manufactured circa 1998 in the Philippines): I remembered this morning that I have got two, almost identical, zip100 parallel port external drives (Model Number: Z100P2), which we can call #1 and #2. Sorry, I think I was only 50% correct in what I told you.
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