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Re: Iomega Zip 100 USB drive....howto use/active it?




On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:12:55 -0400 (EDT) Walter Tautz
> <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > presumably some relevent usb modules need to be loaded:
> > currently:
> (snip)
> 
> Not sure about the Zip drive in particular, but for other USB storage
> devices, I've needed to load the following:
> 
> usb-storage
> sd_mod
> sr_mod
> 
> > How does one create a file system on disk? Does it make sense to mount
> > stuff? What /dev/ file is used?
> 
> If it operates like other USB storage devices, it will register as one of
> the /dev/sdX devices.  My devices normally spit some information into
> dmesg once their recognized regarding what device they are registered as.

Yes, indeed once sr_mod was inserted that registered the device under /dev/sda

turns out it's preformated with vfat...but I can change that...



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