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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Zip- Drive
From:       Moritz Franosch <jfranosc () axon ! t30 ! physik ! tu-muenchen ! de>
Date:       1999-09-30 20:49:24
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bstegen@tiscalinet.it (Bastian Stegen) writes:

> Hello to all,
> 
> I would like to know how I can make work my IDE Zip-Drive under linux. EG.
> Can you tell me what kind of filesystem it has?


The driver is in the kernel (the option is called IDE/ATAPI Floppy
support).  

IDE ZIP drives are configured/mounted/partitioned like any IDE HDD.
I.e. you use 
'fdisk /dev/hd?' 
(?=a for first IDE device and so on) to partition the ZIP disk and
'mke2fs /dev/hd?1' 
to make an ext2 Filesystem on Partition 1 and 
'mount -t ext2 /dev/hd?1 /mountpoint' 
to mount Partition 1.  So the ZIP disk can have any filesystem you
want.

If it is a pre-formatted ZIP disk, it's probably mounted by
'mount -t vfat /dev/hd?4 /mountpoint'.
(Partition number 4 gets the letter 'F:' under DOS I think, that's
because it's pre-partitioned so obscure by default.)

Documentation is in this HOWTO:
http://doc.rmplc.co.uk/linux/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html


Moritz

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