On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Thomas Hubbell wrote:
> I asked this question yesterday but got no
> replies. I'll try again just for the heck of it. . .
>
> Does anyone know of any plans to support the
> Syquest EIDE SparQ removables drives (not the
> parallel port version) in Linux? Has anyone even
> tried to get it to work?
>
> I have heard that, in general, removable IDE
> drives do not work, although the ZIP IDE drive
> is supposed to work in some cases.
>
With the 2.0 kernels maybe. With 2.1 kerenls most likely.
If te SparQ adhears to the EIDE standard and is found by your BIOS
properly it should be recognized on bootup during the IDE scan.
I do have a SparQ here but it's in my dad's NT machine. Maybe I'll pop it
into this machine if I get bored and let you know the results.
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