[SLE] Zip 100 ATAPI
How do I set this up as a slave device on IDE1? I've seen plenty of info on parallel port Zip, but never on the IDE version. As always, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -- ____________________ Joseph A. Hylkema josephhy@wsu.edu Check out (and laugh at) my first crack at a website at http://seattle.resnet.wsu.edu All-Time Top Five Country Songs: 5. I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better 4. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In Bed 3. I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well 2. You Done Tore Out My Heart, And Stomped That Sucker Flat The number one country song of all time: I've Got Tears in My Ears From Lying On My Back While I Cry Over You -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Joe Hylkema wrote:
How do I set this up as a slave device on IDE1? I've seen plenty of info on parallel port Zip, but never on the IDE version.
It's there already as /dev/hdd. Just mount it as type msdos (don't try anything else, it's bound to fail or at least give trouble). JV -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* jan vermeulen (j.vermeulen@hot.A2000.nl) [000303 03:08]:
It's there already as /dev/hdd. Just mount it as type msdos (don't try anything else, it's bound to fail or at least give trouble).
Hogwash! If this is a standard preformatted ZIP disk, vfat works just as
well and offers you also long file names. If one doesn't need to also read
the disk under another OS, I'd recommend formatting them with an ext2
filesystem.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* jan vermeulen (j.vermeulen@hot.A2000.nl) [000303 03:08]:
It's there already as /dev/hdd. Just mount it as type msdos (don't try anything else, it's bound to fail or at least give trouble).
Hogwash! If this is a standard preformatted ZIP disk, vfat works just as well and offers you also long file names. If one doesn't need to also read the disk under another OS, I'd recommend formatting them with an ext2 filesystem.
I'll second Philipp on this one. I've been using VFAT since I first got this disk, and I've never had a bit of trouble. Some have reported that some kernel revisions do nasty things to VFAT disks in Zip drives, but I *personally* have never had any trouble aside from using cheap-@$$ media. On a side note: I've used Sony, Fujitsu, and Fuji disks. All have failed inside of 12 months. OTOH, I have a Genuine Iomega disk that's 3 years old. Pay the extra $2 US for Iomega media; because you're data is worth it (tm). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x121 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Philipp Thomas wrote:
It's there already as /dev/hdd. Just mount it as type msdos (don't try anything else, it's bound to fail or at least give trouble).
Hogwash!
I'll reply this in a personal email. In german JV -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Thu, Mar 02 2000 at 17:00 -0800, Joe Hylkema wrote:
How do I set this up as a slave device on IDE1? I've seen plenty of info on parallel port Zip, but never on the IDE version.
As always, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Make sure your kernel has Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy and IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support. If it has, you can mount it just like an IDE hard disk. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Joe Hylkema wrote:
How do I set this up as a slave device on IDE1? I've seen plenty of info on parallel port Zip, but never on the IDE version.
That's the way I've got mine. Basically, the internal Zips just appear as removable media regular disks, so it's not difficult at all. My /etc/fstab looks roughly like this: # ATAPI Zip, using IDE-SCSI Emulation /dev/sda /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 If you're not using IDE-SCSI Emulation (i.e. a stock SuSE kernel), the device is probably /dev/hdb instead of /dev/sda. I will also note that my particular disk is kind of weird, and /dev/hdb4 is probably the vfat partition you want to mount. If you don't want to use the vfat file system, and were only going to use the ext2 file system on your Zip disks, you could also completely reformat the disks using: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb # mke2fs /dev/hdb That would allow you to mount /dev/hdb as a block device, instead of /dev/hdb4 (don't forget to edit /etc/fstab!). For more details, have a look at `man fstab' ;). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x121 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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