Aslak wrote... > > > > I have one of the IOMEGA ZIP-drives,100MB, parralell version, > > > > and was wondering if it is, if it can, and if it will be > > > > possible to have one's linux system one of these ZIP disks. It > > > > _is_ possible to have a system on 100Megs, and it would be > > > > extremely convenient, at least for my purposes.
Eric Hoeltzel... > I just loaded up Linux on a 1 gig iomega jaz drive last weekend. It > was quite painless, just dropped a friend's aha1515 into my 486dx50 > and ran the install and make him a bootdisk with loadlin. I would > say that it was somewhat noticably slower than an IDE drive, but > pretty acceptable nonetheless. X ran fine too. Highly convenient > arrangement I would say, and I had never seen one of these jaz > drives before. The SCSI version of the zip drive is a bit faster than the parallel port version the I assume your Jaz drive is a SCSI version too? Best regards. Anthony Godshall - Paradigm Shifting and Testing Digital Models and Transformations Project Engineer, Educator, Programmer
