[102559] in RedHat Linux List
RE: IDE Zip Drives OK?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Richardson)
Thu Dec 3 19:54:54 1998
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:39:32 -0000
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My ATAPI (IDE) Zip drive works perfectly with 5.1 - it's just IDE, Linux
2.0.x knows all about that. Just slot it in and Linux'll find it. Compare
that to the parallel Zip, where you have to make it pretend to be a SCSI
device.
Here's a tip - vfat Zip disks mount as partition 4 by default: when I
convert Zip disks to ext2 I use fdisk to remove partition 4 and create a
partition 1, THEN mkfs ext2. That way there's no confusion about which
type of disk I'm mounting and zero possibility of one fs overwriting the
other.
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