Re: [TCLUG:626] Iomega Zip Drive

[Christopher Reid Palmer <jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Hans Umhoefer wrote:

> Unless you have other scsi devices attached to the machine the zip drive 
> should be /dev/sda4, you just have to mount it and it works like any other
> filesystem.

Is this correct? Why would a parallel port device be represented as the
fourth partition on the first SCSI disk?

And what if you *do* have other SCSI disks? (I'm getting my new PC put
together, and it will have all SCSI disks, including a SCSI Zip, so I'm
kinda anxious about this...).

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