Re: [seul-edu] External ZIP drives

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

It is a kernel issue, under SCSI, you have two driver options for PPA
zip drives.  I have used both, many times, with tons of success.

The drive will come up as an "sdX" device (normaly sda), and most zip
disks use partition 4 for the data.

You might need to recompile your kernel with SCSI support, and Iomega
drives (make the modules, as that will allow you to try both of them).

			Harry

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Dave Prentice wrote:

> Hello,
>     Does anybody have experience using external ZIP drives (parallel
> interface) with Linux? I know the internal IDE types should be fine, but I
> was wondering if anybody has successfully used the parallel version. The one
> at my house work fine under Win95, but I never could get it to work with RH
> 7.0.
>     I was thinking that the external type might be an easy way to move
> 100meg or less from (non-networked) machine to machine at school, especially
> now that OpenOffice.org is available for both Win and Linux. Not all the
> machines have CDs, so it seems like zip might be the way to go.
>
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
>

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