Subject: Re: External SCSI Zip drive
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 03:36:12 MDT
The line in /etc/fstab for the zip drive would look something like this:
/dev/sda /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,user 0 0
The "noauto" stops linux from trying to mount the zip disk at startup (which
would fail with no disc in the drive). The "user" allows any user, not just
root, to mount the disk. You clearly wouldn't want this option for the
system partitions but it's handy for removables.
Iain
on 23/7/01 10:15 am, L. S. at lsearchw@lausd.k12.ca.us wrote:
> "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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