On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Erika wrote:
> Is this correct? Is there anything more I need to do? What devices will
> the accelerator card and zip drive be listed as, and how do I know whether
> they're working?
During bootup you should see the drive found. The actual result may
depend upon the other scsi devices you have. If there are none, your
drive should be found as /dev/sda (scsi-disk-a). If its the second it
would be /dev/sdb, etc. It will be useful for you to know that
Iomega ships its disks with the partition table set to partition 4, GOK
why. I always use fdisk on a new disk to set it to partition 1. Remember
it must be linux-native. You can then create an ext2 file system on it,
"it" now being /dev/sda1. If you didn't change the partition you would
have had to use /dev/sda4. As you see, the whole operation is much like
that for a fixed disk, but these are removable.
I have fould the Zip drives very useful for backups. Good Luck,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879
http://www.unl.edu/physics/
