[ale] Parallel port

[jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu (Jim Kinney)]

I have my zip drive on a parallel port with pass through printing enabled.

Compile a kernel with modular parallel port and ppa support. I also used
all modules for the zip drive aspect of block devices.

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Prabhakar + Nitika wrote:

> Hi everyone:
> 
> I am running Mandrake 6.1. I have an Iomega ZIP drive - the 
> external parallel port edition (ZIP 100). My parallel port does 
> not get detected during boot process. I get the "scsi hosts:0" 
> message. I think the kernel in Mandrake 6.1 has support for 
> the zip compiled in as modules. I have tried loading the ppa 
> module, and get the "device or resource busy" message. I have 
> tried everything suggested in the newsgroups, but have not 
> been able to get my parallel port recognized. Can anyone 
> please point me in the right direction ?
> 
> appreciate any info
> thanks
> prabhakar
> 
>