Mauro,
I just checked the URL and everything was said there... I'll be able
to use my Jaz Drive for booting a Linux OS through the parallel port!!!
Many Thanks,
Fabien.
Mauro Tortonesi a �crit :
>
> On Thu, 27 May 1999, Fabien Masson wrote:
>
> > I recently bought a Jaz Drive and a Jaz Traveller (the parallel
> > interface for the drive) to be able to backup my stuffs.
> > I chose the parallel interface against a PCI-SCSI interface (for the
> > moment) because I often see customers and I don't want to open their PC
> > and add my SCSI card since I just have to install a small software on
> > their computers the first time.
> >
> > My question is: "Will I be able to use it with Linux like a ZIP
> > Drive?".
> > My 2nd question is: "Will I be able to boot Linux on it with just few
> > floppies and a right configured kernel?".
> >
> > I didn't see anything on that in HOW-TOs ... except for ZIP drive.
> >
> > Does someone achieve that with Linux? Maybe, I do have to check on
> > dejanews for the details?
> > If yes, do I have the right material with Mandrake 5.3?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Fabien.
>
> Try http://www.torque.net/paride. There should be some docs in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation too.
>
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>
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