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Re: kernel need to be reconfigured for Zip drive ?



On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:01:37PM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
> Hello, I just bought a Zip 100 IDE drive.  I am running kernel 2.4.19
> with scsi emulation support for cdrom.  Just wondering if I need to turn
> on any options to have it support the Zip drive.  
> 
> dmesg says the zip is under hdd  ,  I tried mount -t vfat  -l /dev/hdd4
> and mount -t vfat  -l /dev/hdd  have these messages 
I have a similar configuration (zip drive in hdd, and scsi emulation)
add this to the boot command line:
hdd=ide-floppy
(this is to avoid the ide-scsi emulation reclaim the zip drive)
and use hdd4 to mount the drive (e.g. mount /dev/hdd4 /zip)
HTH

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