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> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
> > I purchased an ATAPI-Zip drive today. Thought it is accessed like a
> > harddrive. Didn't see anything helpful on bootup.
> > Just want to make sure the darn thing is no binjob.
> > Juergen
> It's fairly elementary to setup a zip drive on Linux, but you do have to
> either 1) install a S.u.S.E. kernel that
> already has zip support, or 2) rebuild your kernel to enable zip support.
> After that you can mount it like you would any other drive with something
> like: mount /dev/sda4 -t vfat /mnt/iomega ( or whatever dir you choose to
just in case... next silly question: how do I find out *which* SCSI
device is emulated?
marvin:/home/brauki # mount -tmsdos /dev/sda4 /mnt
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
marvin:/home/brauki #
(same with any other partition on /sda)
I do not know the module name to insert, a guess sais ppa, but I fear
that's the parallel port version that is not doing any good to me.
marvin:/home/brauki # insmod ppa
/lib/modules/2.0.35/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
marvin:/home/brauki #
Here, I am stuck with an uncertain module, very probably other errors
and less clues.
> use.). If you have a zip+ you might want to go back and reread that
> thread.There's a Zip for Linux url I posted but don't have it handy right now.
followed a few links from the zip howto, but did not see anything
obvious.
> Cheers,
> -M
>
Yes, as mentioned above, I came so far to discover all that. Reading a
bit more in the SDB that hinted me to SCSI-emulation (that I overlooked
because I mistook it with the SCSI version), but my kernel compiles
failed with some obscure message (something like SCSI support needed). I
was about to cry HELP!! to the list for that, when I had the idea to
include the SCSI support not as a module, but fixed. My kernel compiled
this time and I could not access my drive yet.
I know, there are different drives about: ide, atapi and scsi for the
internal. For atapi, the howto sais include IDE/ATAPI disk (what I did).
I'll have another go at ide.txt in the Doc* directory, but I got only
few hopes for success, since a quick search did not reveal direct hits
for searching "zip". I always live in the fear to have purchased the one
broken device from the whole lot. ;-(
Again: Any help appreciated.
Juergen
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