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Title: IOMEGA ZIP drive

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IOMEGA ZIP drive

Finally: IOMEGA ZIP drive at the parallel port

Since S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 (Kernel 1.3.74) the IOMEGA ZIP drive at the parallel port is also supported. (The SCSI version is, of course, supported too, see below)

The essential principle is that a SCSI device is emulated by the driver. By this there is in the system e.g. a device /dev/sda (when there is not any other SCSI disk), that is addressed as a normal hard disk.

Installation

The easiest possibility is to load the module ppa. For this purpose, you should use one of our standard kernels in which the module is already compiled.
	modprobe ppa
Check, whether the module was loaded and whether the hard disk is detected:
	lsmod
	fdisk -l
If you have installed an own kernel, generate, due to that, suitable modules. Set for this purpose the parameter CONFIG_SCSI_PPA to M.

Afterwards generate and install the module by:

	make modules
	make modules_install

Use

As said, you have now (logically seen) a SCSI disk in the system. The advantage is, that you can change it into runtime, as long as it is not accessed to it.

You can create now a partition with fdisk (it is not necessary to boot afterwards!) and a filesystem and mount, e.g.:

	mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1
	mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
Before you remove the floppy, unmount with:
	umount /dev/sda1
You can execute a multi-volume data protection, e.g.:
	tar cvMf /dev/sda /usr
... or compressed:
	tar cvzMf /dev/sda /usr

Restrictions

Further information:

SCSI version

In this point is only necessary to have support for the corresponding SCSI adapter.

Test simply with fdisk -l whether the ZIP drive was detected.

The media can be accessed exactly as described above. There are no restrictions as for the parallel version.

Jazz drive

The same, as for the ZIP drive's SCSI version applies: it is supported wherever it is simply integrated in the system as SCSI disk.

See test in the ix, July '96

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Keywords: IOMEGA, ZIP, PARALLEL, SCSI, JAZZ

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