Re: External SCSI Zip drive


Subject: Re: External SCSI Zip drive
From: L. S. (lsearchw@lausd.k12.ca.us)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 03:15:35 MDT


"T. Perreault" wrote:
>
> Hello all -
>
> Being yet another Linux neophyte, I was wondering how do I configure
> YDL 2.0 to see my external SCSI Zip drive. Until I get the modem
> connected to the Mac (US Robotics 56K modem off the ADB modem port),
> bringing my Powerbook into work to download RPMs & tarballs off the
> ethernet connection and putting them onto a Zip drive is the only way
> that I will be able to get stuff onto (or off) the machine.
>
> Besides turning it on before I boot my Mac, is there anything else
> that I need to do such as mount it from root/su, and if so what is
> the most likely device name for it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony Perreault

On my machine, I have two SCSI devices: a built-in Zip drive at ID 5 and
a Magneto-Optical drive at ID 6.

As root I did...
mkdir /mno/zip /mnt/mo

and use...
mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/sda /mnt/zip
mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/sdb /mnt/mo

(The "a" in sda because the zip is the first device on the SCSI, and "b"
in sdb for the MO is second.)

See "/etc/fstab" and "man mount"

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