There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel,
IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra
install*, this is trivial. The following commands:
insmod ppa
mkdir /mnt/zip (if this doesn't exist already)
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
allow you to access a DOS-formatted zip disk in a parallel drive from the
directory /mnt/zip. Works much better than NT (where the parallel ZIP
drivers slow down the PC to an unusable level - anyone know why this is?
I've never seen anything else hose my NT workstation's performance so
badly).
* Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a
'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a
error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something
like that) are missing. It looks like some sort of dynamic linking problem,
but I don't know enough about linux dynamic linking to diagnose the problem.
Yet I can put ppa in /etc/modules and it works fine. I'd rather load and
unload the parallel ZIP driver dynamically, since I usually connect the
drive after I've booted.
Mark
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Buckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 2:19 PM
Subject: iomega zip disk (100)
Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see
from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone
run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I
plan on attaching one to my Linux P.C. soon and I'd like it to go a smooth
as possible! I'm primarily doing this so I can put some of X -windows deb's
on them(zip disks). Some of the files are to big for a floppy and zip disk
would be an ideal(available) medium that I can use.
Thanks,
Wxb1
