[ale] Are IDE ZIP-drives supported under 2.0.33?

Linux Idiot esoteric at atlnet.com
Wed Jun 3 15:17:49 EDT 1998


John M. Mills wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the responses to my inquiry on IDE ZIP-drive support.  Doesn't
> sound like it's a problem, except that the data might come out on the 4th
> partition.  Is that true for a drive formatted and its 'fs' built under
> Linux, too, or is it strictly a DOS/Win artifact?

Although the zip floppies are preformatted as /dev/sda4, I have
re-fdisk/formatted them to /dev/sda1.  Parallel Zip, but I wouldn't
think that matters.

> 
>   John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
>     Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0834
>           Phone contacts: 404.894.0151 (voice), 404.894.6285 (FAX)

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