On 25 Apr 2000, at 11:12, Ron wrote:
> Mandrake 7.0 suposedly supports ZipDrives. How do I make it see the
> device???
First, I would read the ZIP-drive HOWTO. What you need to do is
this:
Rebuild the kernel
1) Build in (assuming it's a parallel port drive) parallel port support.
If you want the drive to be seen at boot and not have to load
modules by hand to get it to work, build it into the kernel-- not as a
module. If you need parallel printing support enabled, build this as
a module.
2) Build in generic SCSI support-- again, not as a module if you
want the drive to be detected at boot.
3) Build in support for "other" SCSI devices.
4) Build the correct (depending on drive) Iomega low-level SCSI
driver as a module.
Install the kernel and shut down the system and install the ZIP
drive, turn it on, and pop a disk in. Reboot the system. During
boot, you should see a message that the drive is recognized and
that the disk is seen as /dev/sda4. This being the case, do:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt (assuming it's a non-linux disk)
You should be able to cd onto the disk. If so, you're done. You
can change the partition type to ext2 if you wish using fdisk and
mke2fs.
Hope this helps,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
