Iomega 100 Plus zip drive setup

[Robert Perry]

I use Iomega ZIP drives on two Ubuntu machines.  They are SCSI drives, 
one is an internal drive, the other is external.  Both worked right off 
the bat.  I have had no problems with either one of them.
Bob P


Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>
>   
>> Em Sunday 09 December 2007 21:16:05 Bob Collins escreveu:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded to kubuntu 7.10. I was told that my computer
>>> overloaded. I found out about (dbkg --configure -a) and recovered from
>>> the crash. I have an Iomega 100 Plus zip drive and I thought it would be
>>> handy to be able to backup my laptop to it. The setup requires the imm
>>> driver to be loaded. I have done a fairly exhaustive search, but cannot
>>> find a place to download it from. The mini-howto that comes up in my
>>> searchesgives a url to go to, but it is no longer available.
>>>
>>> If anyone could send me the imm driver or give me a location to go to I
>>> would appreciate it.
>>>       
>> You already have it, unless you compiled your kernel (in which case you
>> wouldn't be asking this, so you didn't). You can load it with the
>> following command:
>>
>> sudo modprobe imm
>>
>> Just to confirm, your Zip drive is an external parallel one, right? If
>> this is correct, and the module imm doesn't work, you can also try the ppa
>> module, which supports (even) older models.
>>
>> regards
>> FF
>>     
> Hi Bob & Felipe,
> I also have an Iomega 100 Zip drive (I don't know if it's plus or not). It
> runs off a USB port. As you suggested, Felipe, no need to install any
> drivers. I don't know which one it used but all I have to do is plug it in
> and mount it. It "just works".
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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