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> > > I 'm trying to install the ppbus stuff for my parallel port
> > > zip drive. The kernel compiled OK, and it has a lot to say
> > > about the drive, but fdisk and mount produce no results.
> > > Here's dmesg. Any ideas.
> > 
> > Can you be more specific about "no results"?  Error messages?  System 
> > lockup?
> 
> No error messages, it just sits doing nothing, i.e. no indication (sound or 
> lights of disk activity in the zip. I bring my prompt back with ^C.

OK, command freeze.  You might eventually get an error message.

> > Actually, this looks pretty ugly; you appear to have detected the vpo0 
> > device twice.  Do you have one Zip or two connected?
>
> Just one.

OK, 2.2 or -current?  Can you send a copy of the relevant parts of your 
kernel config?  Have you tried it with a fresh kernel source tree?

(In particular I am wondering if you've managed to get two copies of 
the vpo driver into your kernel.)
 
mike