RE: Drivers for Iomega Zip Drive?
Chad,
On my PC, this works "magically".
I've a PC with an Iomega ZIP drive attached to the parallel port, and
for some time --believing the HOWTO re ZIP drives claiming only the SCSI version
is supported, not the parallel port-- I made backup in a two stage manner
(booted Linux, copied files and TAR sets to a DOS volume, booted DOS, and
then copied them to the ZIP drive).
However, I noticed that, when the ZIP drive was powered on and connected
to the parellel port while booting Linux, I got messages on a SCSI device
that the boot image apparently found (I do not have a SCSI adapter or any
SCSI device on my PC).
The messages were on a device /dev/sda4, and when a diskette was inserted in my
ZIP drive, the messages during boot identified the "non-exisiting" SCSI device
and an IOMEGA drive. I then decided to play stupid, and while Linux (Debian 1.1.4)
was booted, I gave the command (under root):
mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt
The amber light of the drive flashed, and I got the UNIX prompt without any
warnings. Subsequent commands like:
ls /mnt
copy /mnt/* .
copy ~/*.c /mnt
worked OK. Also, after booting DOS, I could simply read the *.c files on the
ZIP drive that were copied there from Linux and vice versa!
I suggest you try this as well.
NB the ZIP drive HOWTO is rather out of date; I did send an email some time
ago to the HOWTO's author, and got back a fairly arrogant answer which I trashed,
but from the few lines in the multi-line answer that were to the point I could
deduce that apparently the parallel port is a SCSI interface "in disguise", hence
the above trick to work.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Erik
--- On Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:21:40 -0700 (MST) Chad Zimmerman
<chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>
>Has anyone seen anyting on drivers so that someone can use their zip drive
>on their Debian system? I think I saw somewhere that there were drivers
>for RedHat's version, but nothing else. I have a Zip and want to use it
>for making my backups on the linux systems I run.
>
>Anyone hear anything on this?
>
>Chad
>
>
>Chad D. Zimmerman
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