Iomega 100 Plus zip drive setup

[Bob Collins]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
Em Sunday 09 December 2007 21:16:05 Bob Collins escreveu:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to kubuntu 7.10. I was told that my computer 
>> overloaded. I found out about (dbkg --configure -a) and recovered from 
>> the crash. I have an Iomega 100 Plus zip drive and I thought it would be 
>> handy to be able to backup my laptop to it. The setup requires the imm 
>> driver to be loaded. I have done a fairly exhaustive search, but cannot 
>> find a place to download it from. The mini-howto that comes up in my 
>> searchesgives a url to go to, but it is no longer available.
>>
>> If anyone could send me the imm driver or give me a location to go to I 
>> would appreciate it.
>>     
>
> You already have it, unless you compiled your kernel (in which case you 
> wouldn't be asking this, so you didn't). You can load it with the following 
> command:
>
> sudo modprobe imm
>
> Just to confirm, your Zip drive is an external parallel one, right? If this is 
> correct, and the module imm doesn't work, you can also try the ppa module, 
> which supports (even) older models.
>
> regards
> FF
>   
Felipe,

Thank you. As soon as I did ( sudo modprobe imm ) my zip plus drive was 
recognized. I added a line to /etc/fstab and I was able to mount a disk 
as root.  I have searched for a "monitor for new hardware application" 
and have not found one.

Bob

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