From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 5: 6:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.a1.nl (relay.a1.nl [194.151.42.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00BB14F12 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 05:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotan@cs.pdx.edu) Received: from mail.a1.nl (mail.a1.nl [194.151.42.3]) by relay.a1.nl (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA78107 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:04:47 +0200 (MET) Received: from macooa (a1-196-153.a1.nl [194.151.196.153]) by mail.a1.nl (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09731 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:54:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199908211154.NAA09731@mail.a1.nl> From: "robert t tan" To: Subject: parralel Iomega ZIP drive. Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:59:43 +0200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, How do you connect a parralel zip drive to a FreeBSD 3.1 box. Ive checked out the FAQ's which says its supported throught the ppbus, I made sure my kernel contains the lines needed but I can't get it to work. this is the dmesg|grep ppbus output nlpt0: on ppbus 0 ppi0: on ppbus 0 plip0: on ppbus 0 I tried: mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip ( Bad signature and some more ) or, mount -t msdos /dev/ppi0 /zip ( says: mount: Block device required ) tnx, rotan ( rotan@cs.pdx.edu ). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message