On Sat, 17 May 2003 09:53:50 -0500 (CDT) Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2003, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > Not sure about how the IDE internal one show up. I thought as a > > special kind of floppy but I could be wrong. > > Nope: > > # dmesg | grep 'hdd' > hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive > hdd: No disk in drive > hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm > > In this case the device Scot referred to would be /dev/hdd4. > Assuming > it was FAT-formatted, anyway; as I recall, HFS (MacOS filesystem) Zip > disks used a different partition. Kind of an interesting concept... > As for using using an IDE Zip drive, Scot's instructions should work > fine. > wouldn't the easier way be if it's an external Zip be to: /dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0 then: modprome imm then: mount /zip If it's an internal IDE, for me it always depends upon where it is in the chain. typically, now it' /dev/hdb /zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0 -- Shawn "Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list