Than You Ian.
I found the paper I was looking for at "Linux Gazzet ' that gave me exactly
what I needed. Every thing I had found was for Par Port and mine is Atapi. Got
it up and running on all four drives
Thanks again
bay56 wrote:
> I really hope you get a good answer to this from someone who knows for
> ure - I have the same setup with an LS120 substituted for the Zip (which I
> gave to a friend!)
>
> but to get you started in A direction;
> I am guessing they will be something like:
>
> hda<---Primary Master HD
>
> hdb<---Primary Slave CD
>
> hdc<---Secondary Master CD [burner]
> (not sure what to do about that yet, but looks like some kind of scsi
> pretence is going to be called for)
> (why the blazes don't people accept that burners actually come in two
> flavours of electronics?)
> (this seems more ostritch than penguin at this point, but I doubt if the
> linux community started it!)
>
> hdd<---Secondary Slave HD (treat it like a cd rom since it's
> removeable media?)
>
> You'll need a directory for each in mnt I think (certainly about to try that
> idea myself)
>
> Also an entry of some sort in fstab reflecting the above arrangements (will
> trial and error that bit till it stops objecting)
>
> Of course if someone actually knows what to do - then please don't just sit
> there watching me make a total bags of it! ;-)
>
> Hope it's of some value <shrug>
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas & Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:42 AM
> Subject: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
>
> > Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up
> > that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block
> > devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to
> > set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my 3.5 and
> > CDrom.
> >
> > I have plenty of documentation on making the links for the floppy and Cd
> > but nothing on how to locate the extras. My regular CD is as slave to my
> > HD on my Primary IDE ATAPI slot of my Mother Board. My CDWR and Zip are
> > master and slave in said order on my Secondary IDE ATAPI slot.
> >
> > Please give me some feed back on how to locate them.
> > Thanks Thomas
> >
> >
