what kind of zip drive? internal IDE? external SCSI or external
parallel port?
Setting up Iomega ZIP parallel port drive:
1. Zip drive uses /dev/sda4 so: ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zip
2. Add following to /etc/fstab:
/dev/zip /mnt/zip vfat noauto 0 0
3. Uses ppa.o kernel module (parallel port adapter)
insmod /lib/modules/<kernel-ver>/scsi/pppa.o
4. mkdir /mnt/zip
5. mount /mnt/zip; use the drive; when done umount /mnt/zip
If it's scsi, your scsi controller should see the device on boot up,
assuming the device is connected and powered up when you boot your pc.
check 'dmesg|more'
Not sure about how the IDE internal one show up. I thought as a special
kind of floppy but I could be wrong.
Marc Olivier wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm running SuSE Linux 8.1 and can't get my Zip drive recognized and mounted.
> I've gone into YAST 2, but I get nowhere. Anyone else have this problem and
> how do I fix it? I am now at the stage I am creating files I'd like to save
> elsewhere in case I crash my hard drive. (I have windows on another
> partition).
>
> Marc
>
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