Re: Linux and ZIP drives

1999-04-20 Thread w7ntf
My sincerest thanks to everyone who responded with positive comments, and even to those with nothing nice to say, in response to my request for assistance. I really appreciate the outpouring of help that came forth, in the spirit of amateur radio. I use an IDE drive, so am confident that it

Re: Linux and ZIP drives

1999-04-20 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Assuming you get a constant ip number your going to work fine. My experiance has been that ISP's want extra money for 100% use of their modem and getting you a ip number. The 56k modem will be plenty fast for a gateway. On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } } } My

Re: Linux and ZIP drives

1999-04-20 Thread terry
On 20 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sincerest thanks to everyone who responded with positive comments, and even to those with nothing nice to say, in response to my request for assistance. I really appreciate the outpouring of help that came forth, in the spirit of amateur radio. I

Re: Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-14 Thread Riley Williams
options enabled, or you may be lucky and the installation kernel recognises it. Will it be treated as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or what? As a hard drive with removable platters - and the driver locks the drive's eject mechanism when it's mounted. Have any of you used ZIP drives

Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-14 Thread Greg E. Priest-Dorman
"Gary" == w7ntf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary Howdy! Gary ... recognize that ZIP drive and allow me to use it? Will it be treated Gary as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or what? Check out the "Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO" by Kyle Dansie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should be in /usr/doc/ in the

Re: Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-14 Thread Riley Williams
Hi all. ...recognize that ZIP drive and allow me to use it? Will it be treated as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or what? Check out the "Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO" by Kyle Dansie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd forgotten about that... It should be in /usr/doc/ in the mini-howto section. I

Linux and ZIP drives?

1999-04-13 Thread w7ntf
, kernel 2.0.36 (or others) recognize that ZIP drive and allow me to use it? Will it be treated as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or what? Have any of you used ZIP drives with your Linux systems? If so, what difficulties did you encounter, and how did you work around them? Thanks in advance