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- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 21:34:00 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Eric Palm <eretic@sunspot.tiac.net>
- To: "Ian C. Blenke" <iblenke@blenke.com>
- cc: executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: E/D and Iomega Zip drive
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- On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
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- > On Fri, 25 Aug 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
- >
- > It does seem strange. The Zip drive works fine with Linux, it is little
- > more than another SCSI device (id 5 or 6). By default, however, it only
- > includes a DOS formatted floppy as the "Utility" disk. If you send away
- > for the Mac disk, however, my bet is it will work quite well.
- >
- > (This experience from installing a minimal Slackware 2.3.x
- > installation onto a single ext2 formatted Zip floppy for a buddy.
- > And, yes, it is really darn neat ;)
- >
- > One the downside, as a Zip drive can only be configured as SCSI device 5
- > or 6, you cannot make one bootable (without a LILO boot floppy or
- > somesuch redirection).
- Now I have the parallel port version of the IOMEGA, just got it today.
- I've just tried it with Executor DOS, and it works fine. But how would I
- get Linux to recognize it without a driver like 'guest' that that is on
- the floppy?
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- Eric
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