On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:35:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric Leblanc dixit: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Matt Campbell wrote: > > > Do I need a special kernel device driver for an Iomega ATAPI Zip 100 > > > drive? Or will the regular ATAPI driver detect and handle the drive? > > > > It just need the ide-floppy drivers compiled or loaded as a modules. If > > you did compile your own kernel (2.0.36 or 2.2.1) you'll see: > > > > Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (new) (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY) [N/y/?] > > > > (that's with 2.0.34) > > ¿does it really? I never touched anything with Debian2.0 and kernel 2.0.34 > and my Iomega Zip (IDE ATAPI) works just fine.
Yes, yes it does. I think the precompiled kernel from Debian has IDEFLOPPY support compiled in. (Well, on kernel 2.0.X, you couldn't put it as a modules IIRC). grep IDEFLOPPY /boot/config-2.0.34 should tell you surely. > Remember that to mount it with a DOS/windoze filesystem (secondary slave): > mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt > ^ > whereas for a Linux ext2 filesystem disk: > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /mnt > ^ > > Regards > > > -- > Un saludo, > > Horacio > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > Quis custodiet ipsos custodet? > ------------------------------ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null