Last night I managed to get the parallel zip 250 drive working with slackware 8.0 kernel version 2.2.19 and there was a surprise in all of this it would be useful to know for future. The ppa driver I already had installed on my system and this kernel came out in June of 2001 so it's not all that old. The ppa driver would not work. What iomega.com had supplied on their cd's was only the ppa driver so I was misslead into trying to use it for the drive. The only thing it could get me back was device or resource busy messages and it was on that basis I thought the drive to be defective. As a hack, I tried using the imm driver and that driver woke the zip drive up and got it working on sda4. So the Linux packaging for the drive I bought in terms of the correct driver was all that turned out to be defective. -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
