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Received: from sunspot.tiac.net (sunspot.tiac.net [199.0.65.22]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA25328 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 18:34:06 -0700 Received: (from eretic@localhost) by sunspot.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.6.6.Beta9) id VAA04057; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 21:34:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 21:34:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Palm <eretic@sunspot.tiac.net> To: "Ian C. Blenke" <iblenke@blenke.com> cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950825180114.28345E-100000@miles.bayanet.com> Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950904213238.3909A-100000@sunspot.tiac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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