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From: James Harper
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 00:00

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Peter Evans (pete1@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
: Hello all,

: I desperately want to hear from anybody who successfully got their Zip
: drive
: working with a Zip Zoom card (Adaptec 152x compatible). I've been
: through
: numerous READMEs and HOWTOs (general SCSI and BootPrompt HOWTOs, as well
: as
: the Zip-Linux HOWTO at www.torque.net) and I cannot get my card
: recognised.
: I'm running Linux 2.0 and the correct driver is in the kernel.

: I get this message at boot:

: scsi : 0 hosts.
: scsi : detected total.   

: The problem may be a lack of BIOS on the card. I'm not sure - the
: documentation that comes with it is ridulously scant, and Iomega
: themselves
: have bugger all info available.

i have an adaptec 1522 and it works just fine with the zip drive!

mine is a scsi insider zip drive, but i didn't use the supplied card
as i was already using the 1522 i had

does it work under dos? have you expicitely told linux the cards base
address, irq etc?

james

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From: loon@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (James Harper)
Subject: Re: Zip Zoom card
Date: 1997/04/07
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