Re: iomega zip disk (100)
i've not used a SCSI or parallel Zip drive with Linux, but i have had
good results with the internal IDE version (100MB). to use it, you need
your kernel compiled with the ide-floppy support enabled.
i have found some Zip disks (media) that i couldn't mount under linux.
i don't know why, as Win95 would see them fine. i was using vfat as the
fs type, but mount would sometimes complain about it being wrong. i
couldn't trace it to anything. i did a mkdosfs on the raw device (for
me, /dev/hdc) and it seemed to format the disk and it would work fine,
from both Linux and Win95. kind of strange, but not a huge problem, and
i haven't experienced any other problems since.
i haven't seen anything about the 250MB version.
On 9 Jul, Wendell Buckner wrote:
> 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
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