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by **Yeep** » Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>I have a problem with my IDE Zip drive. I'm using SUSE 5.2,
>and when system boots up, it reports that my Zip report
>both 0 and 1xxxx ( about 100M ) as its size, and I can't mount
>my zip disks.

>Should I first make linux file system on my zip disk before I use it?
>Or dos format disk is supported? In a word, how can I use zip disks
>with this drive?

>Mine is a NEC brand drive, and it's said it's a bit different from Iomega
>drives, that one is EIDE and the other is ATAPI, I don't know which is
>which.

Compile ATAPI floppy drives into the kernel.
And then mount the fourth (4th) partition on the device the ZIP is attached
to.
Mine is /dev/hdc4

MAke sure you have DOSFS in the kernel though.

Yeep

by **André Jan** » Wed, 02 Sep 1998 04:00:00

Hi!

Quote:> Hi,

> I have a problem with my IDE Zip drive. I'm using SUSE 5.2,
> and when system boots up, it reports that my Zip report
> both 0 and 1xxxx ( about 100M ) as its size, and I can't mount

This message appears when you don't have a disk in at boot time.

Quote:> my zip disks.

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NEC Zip 100 probelm

NEC Zip 100 probelm

NEC Zip 100 probelm