Re: ATAPI zip drive
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:35:03AM +0100, homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:
> Eric Leblanc dixit:
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Matt Campbell wrote:
> > > Do I need a special kernel device driver for an Iomega ATAPI Zip 100
> > > drive? Or will the regular ATAPI driver detect and handle the drive?
> >
> > It just need the ide-floppy drivers compiled or loaded as a modules. If
> > you did compile your own kernel (2.0.36 or 2.2.1) you'll see:
> >
> > Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (new) (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY) [N/y/?]
> >
> > (that's with 2.0.34)
>
> ¿does it really? I never touched anything with Debian2.0 and kernel 2.0.34
> and my Iomega Zip (IDE ATAPI) works just fine.
Yes, yes it does. I think the precompiled kernel from Debian has IDEFLOPPY
support compiled in. (Well, on kernel 2.0.X, you couldn't put it as a modules
IIRC). grep IDEFLOPPY /boot/config-2.0.34 should tell you surely.
> Remember that to mount it with a DOS/windoze filesystem (secondary slave):
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt
> ^
> whereas for a Linux ext2 filesystem disk:
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /mnt
> ^
>
> Regards
>
>
> --
> Un saludo,
>
> Horacio
> homega@vlc.servicom.es
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