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Andrew McNamara wrote:
> 
> >I desperately want to hear from anybody who successfully got their Zip
> >drive working with a Zip Zoom card (Adaptec 152x compatible).
> 
> I have this configuration working correctly. I've built the 152x driver
> as a module, and I specify the IRQ and I/O addresses in the conf.modules
> file (can't remember the syntax at the moment).

G'day,

I finally got the card working properly this morning. Turns out the
append line in /etc/lilo.conf must be *in* the section of the file
dealing with linux loading (if you can also boot another OS) rather than
at the end of the file. To illustrate, my /etc/lilo.conf looks like

# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 200
vga = normal    # force sane state
ramdisk = 0     # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hda3
  label = linux
  read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
checking
  append = "aha152x=0x140,12,7,1"
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
  label = dos
  table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends

Card jumpers set for I/O 0x140 and IRQ 12 (card is hardwired to be SCSI
7).

Also, because it's a while since I installed LILO, I completely forgot
that after modifying the conf file, you must run /sbin/lilo to rebuild
the MBR. I feel like an idiot for that...

Seems to all work now. Much relief.
 
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Peter Evans
pete1@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pete1