On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am having > problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I cannot figure out which > device it is and becuase I need to have the edits to the fstab I need to make > explained. > > Any help & explanations would be very much appreciated.
As the ATAPI model seems to be the most popular I'll show you what you need to know for installing such a beast. For SCSI only the first step will differ. First find out which IDE channel you're using: grep ZIP /var/log/messages OK, in my case that gives hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive However, this is not enough because for some never explained reason Iomega has formatted some ZIP disks with a filesystem on hdd4 some others just on hdd. Some you need to figure out what is applicable to your situation. Trial and error may be the fastest route in this case as there are only two options. Or you could just build your own filesystem on them with mke2fs. Here's what I have in my /etc/fstab for the ZIP drive: /dev/hdd4 /zip ext2 defaults,user,noauto 0 0 #/dev/hdd4 /zip vfat defaults,user,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 The first entry is the one I use normally, but sometimes I need to mount ZIP disks from friends that are using "that other OS". That's what the second entry is for. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
