trouble mounting a zip drive on parallel port

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:55 pm, Alex Walker wrote:
> Alas, I got no message about "Creating DISK da0". I have double checked all
> of the connections (my machine is set to dual boot with another OS, and
> everything works fine there), so I know it's not a connection issue. Still
> it just refuses to find the drive even though I have set everything up in
> my kernel exactly as it says in the handbook. Any chance someone else out
> there might have run into this?
>
> I hate to sound overly desperate, but as I stare down at the little green
> light on my zip drive while it stubbornly refuses to work, I'm beginning to
> hear a voice in my head that sounds suspiciously like John Cleese when he
> screamed "you vicious bastard!" at his car in the "gourmet night" episode
> of Fawlty Towers. Someone please help me before I start whacking the thing
> with a plant.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:13 am, David Fleck wrote:
> > Creating DISK da0

Have you tried mounting various /dev/da0* devices?  To get a list of them, 
execute:

ls -al /dev/da0*

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould