I have and Iomega Zip Drive (100, Parallel) connected to my home workstation. After upgrading from Red Hat 6.0 to 6.1, I can no longer load the 'ppa' kernel module which is needed to use the drive. To test the problem, I set a new, fresh install of Red Hat 6.1 on a different PC (at work, had a different Zip drive attached, but same model.) I had the same results: when I run 'dmesg' after system startup, there are no ppa, parport or scsi messages listed. 'lsmod' initially shows: Module Size Used by 3c59x 19112 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) vfat 9180 1 (autoclean) fat 30464 1 (autoclean)[vfat] I then run: [root@computer /root]# modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy parport: Device or resource busy [root@computer /root]# 'dmesg' then shows: ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x) ppa: parport reports no devices. scsi : 0 hosts. now 'lsmod' shows: Module Size Used by parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean)(unused) parport 7124 0 [parport_probe] 3c59x 19112 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) vfat 9180 1 (autoclean) fat 30464 1 (autoclean)[vfat]
Add 'alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc' to /etc/conf.modules.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5680 ***