Re: use Iomega zip 100 usb?

Subject: Re: use Iomega zip 100 usb?
From: Guy McArthur (guym@guymcarthur.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 16:14:25 MST

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I just put a parallel port zip drive on my ydl 2.1 machine. Works fine.
What I did was
1) plugged in device and shutdown
2) looked at dmesg | less to see what device name it was getting (/dev/sdb)
3) added an entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip vfat auto,user,rw 0 0

(The type is VFAT because I'm using zip disks that have been created in windows).

4) Made the mount point (mkdir /mnt/zip ; chmod 666 !$)

and

5) Made a link to the device on the desktop (KDE) with the desktop menu's "Create New Device -> Floppy"
(though I renamed it to 'Zip Disk' instead of floppy).

david wright wrote:

i know i have to mount this to use it. where is it? /dev/sda? I have found 
some tut's on zip's but they are all old before usb was supported and they 
are all for pc. (I have created a mount point /mnt/zip)

i am also interested in doing a basic back-up, a zip 100MB is probably not 
big enough, right?

thank you.

Guy McArthur * email{guym@arizona.edu} http{guymcarthur.com}
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