On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Mike L. Dickey wrote:
> I've read the Iomega ZIP HOWTOs and noticed that they only mention
> 3 versions of the hardware (parallel external, SCSI internal, SCSI
> external). I've also browsed through the Debian website (noticed
> the facelift) ... there is no good site-wide search engine there,
> so I couldn't be as complete in my search as I'd like.
>
> I have an internal drive that I KNOW I connected to one of my EIDE
> controllers (plus, I don't have a SCSI host adapter at all).
>
> Is there support for this drive yet/already? I'd prefer to be able
> to use it as install media (instead of several floppies or the
> network and versus installing Linux ON the ZIP drive).
>
I can't say for 100% sure about the ZIP internal IDE drives but I have a
Syquest removable IDE drive and it works just like and other IDE hard
disk. No special software support is needed other than the normal hard
disk support, and the removable IDE disk support that is already included
in the 2.0.x kernels.
You must have a disk in the drive at bootuop so the kernel can find it.
Then you use fdisk, mke2fs, e2fsck mount & umount like you would any other
hard disk.
One snag is that if you use it as your root / partition it will software
locked even after you shutdown. So you have to boot another OS to be able
to remove it.
The old 1.2.x kernels had a serious problems when you umount, change
disks, and mount the new disk. It would think it had the smae filesystem
there and complain about corruption and e2fsck would totally trash it. But
the removable disk support in 2.0.x seems to have fixed that.
Like I said above, I'm can't be 100% sure but I don't see why ZIP would
make their internal IDE drives any different, since it's already running
off the IDE controller in your box.
Time flies like arrows, but fruit flies like bananas
Perry Piplanihttp://perrypip.netservers.com
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