On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 23 Shevat 5762, Eric Deveaud wrote:
> Not sure why it says this, but that doesn't affect the usage of the > drive. rigth it still useable. > > why the zip drive, removable disk, is tested while there is no > > medium ?? is there a way to correct/enhance this. I find it strange, and was surprised by the message, I think it was handed the same way as CDrom. > If you put a ZIP cartridge into that drive and mount it > appropriately using sdc1 or sdc5 or whatever the partition ends up > being on there, it will work just fine, and the computer will realize > that it's not a 1GB cartridge and treat it right. yes it mounts perfectly. > I have used both 100MB and 250MB ZIPs this way and they just work, whaooo, I'll try a 250M as soon as possible. > You can read and write whatever filesystems are supported with your > kernel, HFS, FAT, and you can even format the ZIP ext2 and make it > Linux-only if you like. it's yet done. zig:~ > cat /etc/fstab /dev/zip /zip ext2 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/zip /zip-mac hfs rw,gid=110,user,noauto 0 0 I use it as 1) a share disk between various computers. 2) share zone between MacOS/Linux Thank's -- Chalut la foule , ça veut dire regardez ce que je vais répondre à l'autre, déjà c'est une remarque méprisante envers quelqu'un qui ne t'a rien fait -+- Fr in GNU - Ch'est chcandaleux : che me chui fait inchulter ! -+-