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The essential principle is that a SCSI device is emulated by the driver.
By this there is in the system e.g. a device
/dev/sda
(when there is not any other SCSI disk), that
is addressed as a normal hard disk.
ppa
.
For this purpose, you should use one of our standard kernels
in which the module is already compiled.
modprobe ppaCheck, whether the module was loaded and whether the hard disk is detected:
lsmod fdisk -lIf you have installed an own kernel, generate, due to that, suitable modules. Set for this purpose the parameter
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA
to
M
.
Afterwards generate and install the module by:
make modules make modules_install
You can create now a partition with fdisk (it is not necessary to boot afterwards!) and a filesystem and mount, e.g.:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 mount /dev/sda1 /mntBefore you remove the floppy, unmount with:
umount /dev/sda1You can execute a multi-volume data protection, e.g.:
tar cvMf /dev/sda /usr... or compressed:
tar cvzMf /dev/sda /usr
Tip: Create under Linux the partition (Typ 6) and format afterwards under DOS.
Test simply with fdisk -l
whether the ZIP drive was detected.
The media can be accessed exactly as described above. There are no restrictions as for the parallel version.
See test in the ix, July '96
See also:
Keywords: IOMEGA, ZIP, PARALLEL, SCSI, JAZZ
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