Zip Drive?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Zip Drive?
started by: clacker

Posted by clacker on July 13 2004,15:34

Has anyone gotten a parallel port Zip Drive to work under DSL? If you have could you please tell me how? I tried creating a /mnt/zippy directory and mounting (as SU) using:

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/zippy
mount /dev/sda /mnt/zippy

but this didn't work. I've been looking at other posts and saw someone said sda worked, some said sda4 worked, I even saw a comment about sdb4 working. I tried all and all failed.

Posted by ke4nt1 on July 13 2004,16:32

Usually, I see it recognized or used as sda4.
I'll try mine tonite, and reply back, if you don't get your answers by then.
DSL forum users are a responsive, knowlegable group.

73
ke4nt

Posted by clacker on July 14 2004,00:10

ken4nt1, I now have it working. I issued the following commads:

sudo su
modprobe ppa
mkdir /mnt/zippy
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zippy

I was able to view what was on the drive, which had me whooping since it has taken so much effort. Before I could unmount the drive, I needed to add the line:

/dev/sda4 /mnt/zippy auto users,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0

to the end of /etc/fstab

Is there a way to remaster a version of DSL that would boot up able to use the zip drive? It will be nice to store my files on the zip drive, formated as a linux partition.

You're right about DSL people being helpful and knowledgable.

Posted by ke4nt1 on July 14 2004,01:39

Congrats.... Good work!

Thanks for sharing... I'll follow up with my own test...

I should have included that lil' tidbit about using "ppa"
in my last post.. sri...
There was another option besides ppa in my RH9, a newer option
I think... but it superseded ppa, so if that worked,
that's probably what we have to work with..

Since DSL autoconfigures and writes the fstab each boot, I'm not
sure how to make DSL see the zippy automagically.

73
ke4nt

Posted by clacker on July 14 2004,02:34

The only thing I'm not sure about is the line that I added into the /etc/fstab. It worked, but it was kind of a guess. Is there a good reference for setting that up anywhere?