USB ZIP 100 SuSE 7.2 2.4.4

so can anybody help get a USB ZIP 100 working with linux, when i check my KDE control Panel and look under information then USB devices my zip 100 is listed there but I have no idea where i can mount it from, I did some digging and found that it is somehow connected to SCSI devices but I'm not exactly sure what to do at this point. I will greatly appreciate the ehlp.

have a look at the "path" called /proc. there is a "sub-dir" that is called scsi. look at the "text-files" there. it should tell your scsi-id for the zip.
then you can use eg. "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip"

(the reason i put everythin in quotes in the first paragraph is that this is no directories nor files. /proc is kind a information system from the kernel...)

another approach: put a disk in your zip and then use "fdisk -l" which shows all available partitions

fdisk -l just list my three linux partition swap home and root. when i try to view the /proc/scsi/scsi file it says: Attached Devices: None. ANything else I could try?

yes. your zip driver is NOT loaded. look for the kernel module. probably sth like "usb disk"

to tell you the truth: i never connected any usb devices to linux, so i might be misleading you...

Parport AND SCSI ZIP become SCSI Devices, ATAPI stays /dev/hd?. so probably there is a device called like "/dev/usbdisk0" or alike... but i am just guessing from what else i know about linux!

something else to try:

cat /proc/devices - can you please post the output?

cat /proc/devices

Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
13 input
14 sound
29 fb
109 lvm
116 alsa
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
180 usb

Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
7 loop
22 ide1
58 lvm

I just type:
modprobe usb-stoarge as root and my zip drive gets assigned to /dev/sda4, but I have to run modprobe evertime I boot up, is there any way I can load mobprobe usb-storage everytime my machine starts?

yes. there is 100 places where you can do that.
the one i prefer: there should be a script called "/etc/init.d/boot.local" (maybe /sbin/init.d...) . this is where you need to add this line to the end.

[edit]
you can setup modprobe to auto-load the driver when its needed and to unload it after it is not used for some minutes.
look at /etc/modules.conf (/etc/conf.modules, depending on your distro and Linux version)
before you load the driver, you should get errors in syslog that a device could not be found. the lines also tell the major and minor numbers that you need to put into this file...
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concerning my last post:
probably it will tell you that scsi is missing or maybe nothing.
if you don´t have scsi, put the line "scsi_disk usbstorage" in the config file. if you have scsi too, automatic loading might not work