Hi all,
I'm trying to use an old parallel port Zip drive on Fedora 2. I downloaded the IOmegaware file for Linux from iOmega (iwclcontainer-lnx-x86-10.tar). I had to use Windows to get it since they need java. It's actually a gzipped file so should have a .gz tacked on the end. I uncompressed and extracted it but I haven't been able to read a disc.
Instead of using mount you apparently use the iOmegaware file (called iw in the tarball but iomega in the readme). The simplest command is:
./iw -m <device>
-m means to mount the specified device. It should use the mount point `/mnt/zip100.0'. I created this directory per the instructions, but have no clue as to the device. I've tried /dev/lp0 and it gives no error, but neither does it make files visible through /mnt/zip100.0. I've also tried specifying the mount point explicitly through the -mp parameter but that doesn't work either. /dev/par0 and /dev/parport0 give error messages, which is progress of a sort, as do /dev/lp1 and friends. In all cases I've tried the numeric suffixes up through 7 or so (ie /dev/par7) but an error message is the greatest amount of interest I've been able to achieve. That kind of interest I could do without...
My previous computer had a builtin Zip drive that worked fine, and my home machine has an external SCSI zip drive that worked fine on FC2.
Does anybody have any experience (or even "helpful" ideas)? Thanks much,
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