is the cable on backwards? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't work
> You did remember to plug everything into the correct place, right? Floppy > drives are supported by BIOS, and RedHat supports them right out of the box, > too. Zip drives are completely different devices... usually IDE or there > abouts. Floppy drives run off of the floppy controller. > > Basically, if you hooked the floppy drive up correctly, it'll work. If it > doesn't work, then it's either hooked up wrong or it's not a floppy drive > :) Even LS-120 drives are supported for regular floppy disk media by the > defacto floppy driver. > > Zip drives a lil strange, though. I've never used one but I had heard that > you gotta use the first logical partition to access the media (/dev/hdd5 > for example). > > And remember.. NEVER put CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, Zip drives, etc, with hard disks > on the same controller :) > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, ebinc wrote: > > > I have a floppy and a 100 zip drive I cant get to work the floppy very > > important, the floppy is a teac i just got it from bestbuy, Red Hat doesn't > > even recognize it, The 100 zip does get recognized in the hardware section > > but it does not work I guess its cause of a driver would it be hard to > > install a driver if I can find one? and is there a way to get the floppy to > > work? > > Thanks Ed > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > -Statux > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
