Getting a Zip Drive to Work

[TMButler60@aol.com]

Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am having
problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I cannot figure out which
device it is and becuase I need to have the edits to the fstab I need to make
explained.

Any help & explanations would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Thomas


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[Paul Johnson]

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:27:41AM -0400, [email]TMButler60@aol.com[/email] wrote:

> Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am
> having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I
> cannot figure out which device it is and becuase I need to have the
> edits to the fstab I need to make explained.

I think all zip drives are treated as SCSI, so it would be among
/dev/sd*.

The Zip Drive HOWTO may be helpful...
[url]http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/ZIP-Drive.html[/url]

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[Andrew Perrin]

Nope - depends on the kind of zip drive. ATAPI zip is seen as /dev/hd*
unless you use ide-scsi to explicitly reassign it.

To the OP:
There may be an easier way to do this, but the way I do it with my ATAPI
(IDE) zip drive is to look in /proc/ide/hd*/model:

perrin:~# cat /proc/ide/hdd/model
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI

that will tell you which device it is. Alternatively, if you load
ide-scsi and sr_mod, you can use scsicheck to find it.

Cheers,
Andy Perrin

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:27:41AM -0400, [email]TMButler60@aol.com[/email] wrote:

> > Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am
> > having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I
> > cannot figure out which device it is and becuase I need to have the
> > edits to the fstab I need to make explained.

>
> I think all zip drives are treated as SCSI, so it would be among
> /dev/sd*.
>
> The Zip Drive HOWTO may be helpful...
> [url]http://ursine.ca/doc/HOWTO/en-html/ZIP-Drive.html[/url]
>
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