RE: [S.u.S.E. Linux] zip drive experience
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On 21-Mar-98 xerxes1 wrote:
Hi all,
I ran across a Linux hardware compatibility faq on the web. It said that zip drives were supported. Any body have any experience with this beast? What's your .02? Thanks. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
I use the "parallel-port" version of the ZIP drive on S.u.S.E. (This has
the advantage that I can carry the same drive to any PC with a parallel
port and use the drive with its software driver, whether the machine has
SCSI or not). Connect the drive to the port, power it up, and from the console
enter
modprobe ppa
This then attaches it to /dev/sda4 as a "quasi-SCSI" device. You can put a ZIP
disk in as bought and it has a DOS filesystem on it. If you wish you can
reformat the disk to have a Linux filesystem on it with the command
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda4
BEFORE mounting the device. I have two directories /ZIP and /zip and entries in
/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda4 /ZIP msdos rw,user,noauto,suid 0 2
/dev/sda4 /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto,suid 0 2
o that
mount /ZIP
mounts the ZIP disk as a DOS fs on /ZIP, and
mount /zip
mounts it as a Linux fs on /zip (of course if the disk has the wrong type of FS
on it then the mount will fail).
From that point on you use it like any other filesystem of the appropriate type.
In order to be able to remove the disk you have to unmount it as well as
pressing the "eject" button on the drive:
umount /ZIP or umount /zip
for the above directories. It's all very straightforward!
Ted,
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