On Sat, 17 May 2003 09:53:50 -0500 (CDT)
Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2003, Scot Jenkins wrote:
> > Not sure about how the IDE internal one show up.  I thought as a
> > special kind of floppy but I could be wrong.
> 
>  Nope:
> 
> # dmesg | grep 'hdd'
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdd: No disk in drive
> hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> 
>  In this case the device Scot referred to would be /dev/hdd4. 
>  Assuming 
> it was FAT-formatted, anyway; as I recall, HFS (MacOS filesystem) Zip 
> disks used a different partition.  Kind of an interesting concept...
>  As for using using an IDE Zip drive, Scot's instructions should work 
> fine.
> 
wouldn't the easier way be if it's an external Zip be to:

/dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0

then:
modprome imm

then:
mount /zip

If it's an internal IDE, for me it always depends upon where it is in the chain.  typically, now it' /dev/hdb /zip vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0

-- 
Shawn

"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will
shape you."  --Albert Einstein 

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