[vox-tech] ZIP drive woes

[Charles Polisher]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:15:30PM -0800, nbs wrote:
> I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on,
> and thought I'd poke around and see what I had.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive),
> I was faced with the following:
[snip]

IIRC, there are two drive styles and they can be distinguished
by the appearance of the data cable.  They don't use the same
drivers! IIRC, the details are either in 
   /usr/src/linux/kernel/Config.help, 
or maybe in the ppa driver module itself.