On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, gman wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I believe that the SyQuest SparQ is the better deal. Are you currently using a SparQ? If so, is there anything special other that the "compile in the IDE Floppy support" recommendation below.
Nope, nothing special. Just stick a cart in the drive, boot up into your BIOS setup screen, and tell it about your new hard drive. Then Linux will discover it quite okay. Do note that Linux won't let you eject a mounted disk! (Just like it won't let you eject a mounted CD-ROM). SparQ carts come pre-formatted for Windows 95. To use them under Linux, either mount them as 'vfat' or go into fdisk and change the partition type to 83. Then do an mkfs -text2 /dev/hdx on it (where 'x' is whatever drive it was assigned to). Eric Lee Green exec@softdisk.com Executive Consultants Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions You might be a redneck if you put on insect repellant prior to a date. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e