Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks
Hello, It appears there are at least a couple different models of the ZIP drive for the parallel port. The one I have now does not work with the PPA support, but works fine with the IMM package. I always have to use /dev/sda4 to access it. I recently tried to build a small debian linux system on a ZIP disk, but gave up. For what it's worth, I believe the newer models have the same interface as the ZIP Plus drive, and both must use IMM. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks
Hallo John! thanks! Yes I know that, I my self have acces here in the uni to 2 diferent versions of the Zip Drive, the question goes to the zip disks. I found some that are formated from factory and read only at /dev/sda1 and others with the normal /dev/sda4. About the ZIP-linux is easy; read carefully the HOWTO and you will get it going. Ahh but the HOWTO talks on an old version of LINUX and well there are some tiny differences (ei. the imm and ppa) but the escence is the same. keep at it Andres PS UPS I am not suscribed to the list... On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 04:14:37PM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: Hello, It appears there are at least a couple different models of the ZIP drive for the parallel port. The one I have now does not work with the PPA support, but works fine with the IMM package. I always have to use /dev/sda4 to access it. I recently tried to build a small debian linux system on a ZIP disk, but gave up. For what it's worth, I believe the newer models have the same interface as the ZIP Plus drive, and both must use IMM. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---end quoted text---
Re: /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks
Andresito del Hierro wrote: I have read everywhere that all the ZIP disks are formated /dev/sda4 but I got a bunch of ZIPs that are /dev/sda1, that is no problem at all, but only curious about that. I also saw that JAZIP does not read them, but I guess is only that I have not set up the conf. file correctly. jaZip should read them whether they have partition /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 if you can mount them manually already (meaning you have proper kernel support). Please try `/usr/sbin/jazipconfig' to create your /etc/jazip.conf and report any bugs. The format is simple: # Configuration file for jaZip # # Raw Device Mount Point Read but ignored /dev/sda /zip autoauto0 0 Peter, your friendly Debian jazip package maintainer
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 with ZIP disks
Hello all! I have read everywhere that all the ZIP disks are formated /dev/sda4 but I got a bunch of ZIPs that are /dev/sda1, that is no problem at all, but only curious about that. I also saw that JAZIP does not read them, but I guess is only that I have not set up the conf. file correctly. Regards from Snowy Vienna Andres. :-) -- Boku -- BOTANIK Univeritaet fuer Bodenkultur Gregor Mendel Str 33 WIEN AUSTRIA A1180
