Subject: RE: ZIP Drives
From: Simon Hill (ibis@metasystema.org)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 13:01:51 MDT
Every Zip disk I've used on Linux is on sdx4, not 5. Try
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip ...
Simon Hill (simon@metasystema.org)
http://www.metasystema.org
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Bryce Verdier wrote:
> How would you set up the zip disk in the fstab file?
>
> I have a beige G3, and have the zip on internal SCSI, and i've been trying
> to figure this one out for a while, i've set up the fstab folder with
>
> sda5(scsi id) /mnt/zip hfs 0 0
>
> and this doesn't seem to be working, any thoughts?
>
> b.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fout [mailto:rfout@damien.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:33 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: ZIP Drives
>
>
> That depends on what filesystem the zip disks you use are going to be. If
> it's from a PC, use dos. If it's from another Linux machine, use ext2. If
> it's from a Mac, use hfs (make sure the disk is NOT HFS+, it won't be able
> to read it). ISO9660 is the standard for CD-ROMs, you can't have an ISO9660
> Zip disk (I'm pretty sure, but not 100% sure of that)
>
> You may want to set it to auto detect the filesystem if you are going to use
> zip disks from multiple OSs.
>
> Bob
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> > From: jaiovinelli <jaiovinelli@earthlink.net>
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 07:23:16 -0400
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: ZIP Drives
> >
> > I was setting up a zip drive on my G4. Can anyone tell me what "type" of
> > file system it should be?
> >
> > dos
> > ext2
> > iso9660
> >
> > Thanks,
> > joseph
>
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