USB support for Mandrake 7.2

In the official site http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 only parallel Zip appare and a search on deja returns user reporting failures when trying to use usb drive.

So I assume that USB model is not supported (yet).

Madrake 7.2 is the best linux distro in detecting and configuring automatically your hardware so I expect that with 2.4 kernel your USB drive will be supported.

Give this a try:
Make sure Mandrake is loading a usb module

Edit your /etc/modules
add usb-uhci if it is not there.

iomega has a forum on their site dedicated to linux you may also want to check there if this doesn't work out for you.

here's the URL its a big one :^)

http://forums.iomega.com/eshare/server?action=190&PAGE=2&EXPANDFULLY=0&EXPANDBRANCH=0&ASORT=3&BSORT=1&AEXPAND=&BEXPAND=&BOARD=17

and good luck

If the kernel version is less then 2.4 I can't help you because USB support is not available with 2.2 kernels. Currently, I know no distributions with 2.4 kernels - version 2.4.0 was released a only a month ago.

Thanks for everyone who has been tryin to help me with my problem. I've got the solution just about 2 days ago. I used kernel version 2.2.17. After doing some research, I realized that
Mandrake see my USB drive as a SCSI drive and it shows up on my system as /dev/sda4.
After mounting /dev/sda4, the USB zip drive works fine.