Re: iomega zip disk (100)

["Mark Wright" <mwright@pro-ns.net>]

There is a mini HOWTO on this.  Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel,
IDE or SCSI?  My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra
install*, this is trivial.  The following commands:

    insmod ppa
    mkdir /mnt/zip    (if this doesn't exist already)
    mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip

allow you to access a DOS-formatted zip disk in a parallel drive from the
directory /mnt/zip.  Works much better than NT (where the parallel ZIP
drivers slow down the PC to an unusable level - anyone know why this is?
I've never seen anything else hose my NT workstation's performance so
badly).


* Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install?  If I try to do a
'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a
error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something
like that) are missing.  It looks like some sort of dynamic linking problem,
but I don't know enough about linux dynamic linking to diagnose the problem.
Yet I can put ppa in /etc/modules and it works fine.  I'd rather load and
unload the parallel ZIP driver dynamically, since I usually connect the
drive after I've booted.

Mark
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Mark Wright
mwright@pro-ns.net
mark_wright@datacard.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Buckner <wxb1@erols.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:19 PM
Subject: iomega zip disk (100)


Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux?  I see
from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done.  Has anyone
run into problems trying to do this?  If so, please let me know, cause I
plan on attaching one to  my Linux P.C. soon and I'd like it to go a smooth
as possible!  I'm primarily doing this so I can put some of X -windows deb's
on them(zip disks).  Some of the files are to big for a floppy and zip disk
would be an ideal(available) medium that I can use.

Thanks,
Wxb1