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Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive





On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Ian C. Blenke wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
> 
> It does seem strange. The Zip drive works fine with Linux, it is little 
> more than another SCSI device (id 5 or 6). By default, however, it only 
> includes a DOS formatted floppy as the "Utility" disk. If you send away 
> for the Mac disk, however, my bet is it will work quite well.
> 
> (This experience from installing a minimal Slackware 2.3.x 
>  installation onto a single ext2 formatted Zip floppy for a buddy.
>  And, yes, it is really darn neat ;)
> 
> One the downside, as a Zip drive can only be configured as SCSI device 5 
> or 6, you cannot make one bootable (without a LILO boot floppy or 
> somesuch redirection).
Now I have the parallel port version of the IOMEGA, just got it today.  
I've just tried it with Executor DOS, and it works fine.  But how would I 
get Linux to recognize it without a driver like 'guest' that that is on 
the floppy?

Eric



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