[linux-help] Re: Setting up a Zip drive with Linux...How?

[ahughes <ahughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use a scsi module - ppa.o, I think. The last I know, you couldn't
have the printer support and the zip support in the kernel at the
same time, so building both as modules would be the only way to have
access to both the zip and the printer. You'll need to remove the printer
module to use the zip disk, and remove the ppa.o module to use the
printer. At least, that's the way it was a year ago. Good luck!

Ann

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> Haha.
> 
> Leave it up to Apple to screw things up more than necessary :-)
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:37:33PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> > At 01:38 PM 4/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >Once the proper support is in the kernel, you will need to mount /dev/sda4
> > >on a normally-formatted Zip disk (for some reason unknown to me, a Zip disk
> > >is by default formatted to use the 4th partition... you can reformat and
> > >change that, and it still works fine in other OSes, as far as I can tell...
> > >but if you buy a pre-formatted Zip disk, you'll typically need to use
> > >/dev/sda4 instead of /dev/sda1).
> > >
> > 
> > I forget where I read this, but I remember that Zip and Jaz drives start of
> > the 4th partition because of Macintosh.  Something about Macintosh using
> > the first three partitions for system information and data starts getting
> > stored on the 4th partition.
> > 
> > Ryan
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