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Re: USB Zip 250 with Debian



On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 12:52, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the USB powered 250 MB zip drive on
> Debian or Linux in general? Does it work? How well?
> 
> My college has just gotten rid of floppy drives in most of their
> computers, and that leaves me no convenient way to transfer files from
> their computers to my laptop. I'd like to get one of the 250 MB USB
> drives, but I'm not too sure on support.

It should work as long as your kernel supports scsi and usb-storage. 
Here's the line from my fstab:

/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0

I haven't tested the power consumption.




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