Re: EZ-Drive or Zip Drive question
Syrus,
Be careful with the EIDE EZ drive under the current stable kernel. If
you change EZ disks while the machine is still on you will not
necessarily get the partition table reread for the new disk and the
results will be unpredictable.
--Glenn Bily
Excerpts from mail: 29-Mar-96 Re: EZ-Drive or Zip Drive q.. Syrus
Nemat-Nasser@ucsd. (810*)
> On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Dennis Chambers wrote:
> > I am getting ready to purchase either an Iomega Zip Drive or a Syquest
> EZ-Drive.
> > My question is does linux support them? If yes, with what interfaces,
> scsi, ide, or
> > parallel port?
> Hi. I asked this question about the IDE version of the Syquest. Although I
> have not been able to purchase one yet, I did talk to people who have them
> already. The IDE version behaves just like an IDE HD. If you have a cartridge
> in at boot time, Linux recognizes it as a hard drive. The only confusion as
> of a few months ago regarded the question of how to unmount a cartridge with
> the system running. I don't know anything about scsi myself.
> Syrus.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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