Ben Beeson wrote:
Aloha,I need to add a Zip drive to my box. Does anyone have any experience running one? I am considering either an internal IDE or a USB drive, but before I plunk down my $$$ I thought I'd ask if anyone knows of any showstoppers.
I have an IDE one and it works fine. The experiences I've had with SCSI ones haven't been very good, but that's mostly due to SCSI controller difficulties (using ages old non-PnP ISA SCSI controllers in a PII PCI system isn't pretty). I have bascially no expereince with USB ones but they should be supported. Of course check before purchasing.
However, if you use devfs, you'll want to make sure you have a disk in at boot time so devfs makes the device nodes. I still cannot figure out how to make it make the device nodes later on (including hdparm -z, the whole block device doesn't exist, not just individual partitions).
If anyone has any solution to this I'd be happy.
Thanks in advance,Ben
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