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Received: from wilma.che.utexas.edu (wilma.che.utexas.edu [128.83.162.58]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA29805 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:09:18 -0700 Received: (from devjoe@localhost) by wilma.che.utexas.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA29036 for executor@nacm.com; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 02:13:33 -0500 From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu> Message-Id: <199509050713.CAA29036@wilma.che.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive To: executor@nacm.com Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 02:13:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1076 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Eric Palm wrote: > > > Now I have the parallel port version of the IOMEGA, just got it today. > > I've just tried it with Executor DOS, and it works fine. But how would I > > get Linux to recognize it without a driver like 'guest' that that is on > > the floppy? > > Linux does not *currently* have a parallel port driver for the IOMEGA Zip > drive. I'm unaware of a driver in development, but I trust the skills of > the thousands of Linux kernel hackers out there... Usually, Linux drivers for new hardware come out quickly, because some hacker takes a driver for a similar device and modifies it as necessary. The reason there is still no Linux driver for the parallel Zip drive is because Linux has no driver for ANY parallel-port drive. Those Backpack hard drives and tape drives don't work with Linux either. I also don't know of one of these in development anywhere, but I'm sure somebody is working on one (probably more than one "somebody"), and when they get it working, then all those devices should be supported fairly quickly. 
