Hi Gary.
> In an effort to improve the general operation of my Linux box, I
> will soon upgrade my Linux 486-DX133 computer to an AMD-K6-233
> computer with 96mb of memory and a 6.4 gig hard drive, etc...
> The AMD has an Iomega 100mb ZIP drive installed.
Presumably that's an internal ZIP drive, but is it the IDE or SCSI
version?
> My question is this: Will RH Linux v5.2, kernel 2.0.36 (or
> others) recognize that ZIP drive and allow me to use it?
If it's an IDE one, RH 5.2 will recognise it out of the box. If it's
the SCSI one, you may have to do a kernel recompile with the relevant
options enabled, or you may be lucky and the installation kernel
recognises it.
> Will it be treated as a floppy drive, or as a hard drive, or
> what?
As a hard drive with removable platters - and the driver locks the
drive's eject mechanism when it's mounted.
> Have any of you used ZIP drives with your Linux systems?
Yes.
> If so, what difficulties did you encounter, and how did you work
> around them?
No difficulties that weren't directly due to operator error - things
such as mistyping `mount` as `munt` resulted in things not working as
expected, but were also easily corrected at the second attempt...
Best wishes from Riley.
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