i've not used a SCSI or parallel Zip drive with Linux, but i have had good results with the internal IDE version (100MB). to use it, you need your kernel compiled with the ide-floppy support enabled.
i have found some Zip disks (media) that i couldn't mount under linux. i don't know why, as Win95 would see them fine. i was using vfat as the fs type, but mount would sometimes complain about it being wrong. i couldn't trace it to anything. i did a mkdosfs on the raw device (for me, /dev/hdc) and it seemed to format the disk and it would work fine, from both Linux and Win95. kind of strange, but not a huge problem, and i haven't experienced any other problems since. i haven't seen anything about the 250MB version. On 9 Jul, Wendell Buckner wrote: > 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 -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Systems Administrator Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES http://al.umces.edu/ This message composed in an MFCE (Microsoft Free Computing Environment). Courtesy of Debian GNU/Linux www.debian.org A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. -- Max Lucado
