On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote:

> I'm fairly sure that Zip drives use some sort of
> SCSI interface.

Externel parallell port iomega zip drives require the
ppa module to be loaded before the lp (printer) module.
The ppa modules will detect the drive and use scsi emulation
to communicate with the device on /dev/sda

Mini-Howto Zip-Drive has info on this.

Since Craig is using an internel zip I don't think that scsi
emulation is used.(/dev/hdb)

New Zip disks 'vfat' are recognised as partitions /dev/hdb4.
After formatting as 'ext2' they are named /dev/hdb1 so the /etc/fstab
entry has to be changed to mount that device.


cheers,
Keith.

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