Chad, On my PC, this works "magically".
I've a PC with an Iomega ZIP drive attached to the parallel port, and for some time --believing the HOWTO re ZIP drives claiming only the SCSI version is supported, not the parallel port-- I made backup in a two stage manner (booted Linux, copied files and TAR sets to a DOS volume, booted DOS, and then copied them to the ZIP drive). However, I noticed that, when the ZIP drive was powered on and connected to the parellel port while booting Linux, I got messages on a SCSI device that the boot image apparently found (I do not have a SCSI adapter or any SCSI device on my PC). The messages were on a device /dev/sda4, and when a diskette was inserted in my ZIP drive, the messages during boot identified the "non-exisiting" SCSI device and an IOMEGA drive. I then decided to play stupid, and while Linux (Debian 1.1.4) was booted, I gave the command (under root): mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt The amber light of the drive flashed, and I got the UNIX prompt without any warnings. Subsequent commands like: ls /mnt copy /mnt/* . copy ~/*.c /mnt worked OK. Also, after booting DOS, I could simply read the *.c files on the ZIP drive that were copied there from Linux and vice versa! I suggest you try this as well. NB the ZIP drive HOWTO is rather out of date; I did send an email some time ago to the HOWTO's author, and got back a fairly arrogant answer which I trashed, but from the few lines in the multi-line answer that were to the point I could deduce that apparently the parallel port is a SCSI interface "in disguise", hence the above trick to work. Hope this helps. Cheers, Erik --- On Sat, 21 Dec 1996 16:21:40 -0700 (MST) Chad Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anyone seen anyting on drivers so that someone can use their zip drive >on their Debian system? I think I saw somewhere that there were drivers >for RedHat's version, but nothing else. I have a Zip and want to use it >for making my backups on the linux systems I run. > >Anyone hear anything on this? > >Chad > > >Chad D. Zimmerman >Sys Admin: dabcc-www.nmsu.edu >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/ > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----------------End of Original Message----------------- Cheers, Erik - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Erik Pessers, project manager | | Telindus Networks nv/sa Phone: +32 16 382011 | | Geldenaaksebaan 335 Direct: +32 16 382956 | | B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium Fax: +32 16 382933 | | | | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | X.400: /C=BE/A=RTT/P=Telinfo/DDAttribute=rfc-822/[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | PGP fingerprint : E4 E0 2E CB 24 57 F4 31 15 E0 C0 9B 25 7D B8 88 | - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]