Subject: RE: ZIP Drives
From: Simon Hill (ibis@metasystema.org)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 14:22:46 MDT
Ah, in linux the drives are lettered and the partitions are numbered. So
sda, sdb, sdc, etc are your scsi drives. I'm not sure how they correspond
to the scsi ids. The numbers refer to the partitions, 1-4 are primary
partitions, and 5- are logical partitions. For some reason the zip drives
have a primary partition, but it is number 4. Don't know why...
Simon Hill (simon@metasystema.org)
http://www.metasystema.org
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Bryce Verdier wrote:
> i will try it, but when it goes through the boot it says that the zip drive
> is ID5... so that is why i put five. I will get back to you on that one.
>
> thans for the answer though
>
> Best wishes,
> b.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Hill [mailto:ibis@metasystema.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:02 PM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'
> Subject: RE: ZIP Drives
>
>
> 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
> > ---------------------------------------
> > "The knack to flying is learning how to
> > throw yourself at the ground and miss."
> >
> > >From "Life the Universe and Everything"
> > by Douglas Adams
> >
> > Robert Fout
> > MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
> > rfout@damien.edu
> > http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
> > ICQ# 48433406
> >
> > > 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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