[PLUG] Ssci zip drive.

[Bill Spears]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:12, Galen Seitz wrote:
> Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have an older (notice the tone of respect, it may be slower, but that
> > doesn't mean it can just give up on life), machine with a scsi zip drive
> > in it.  I put a disk in it and the little light came on and I believe it
> > was accepted.  Trouble is I don't know what to do get it going.  
> > 
> > I've read some older docs and they speak of rebuilding the kernel and
> > putting incantations in lilo an /etc/modules.conf. This older machine is
> > running Fedora1 and I just don't believe I have to do that, you know
> > modern modular kernel and all that.
> > 
> > Help me give a meaningful and purposeful life to this older machine.
> > 
> 
> I'd start by doing cat /proc/scsi/scsi.  You ought to see your drive listed.
> For example:
> 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: IOMEGA   Model: ZIP 100          Rev: N*32
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> 
> Do you have other scsi disks?  If so, this will affect which device
> (/dev/sd?) is associated with the drive.  Posting the output
> from cat /proc/scsi/scsi is a good place to start.
> 
> galen
> 
> 
Attached devices none.

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Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>