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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:15:38 -0500
From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
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Luke Davis writes:
>Now if I could only figure out how to use a parallel zip drive under
>linux, I'd be all set!

Support for that controller is available, but you have to configure
and compile the kernel to get it.  Do "make config" and answer "Y" to
at least these questions:

   SCSI support?
   SCSI disk support?
   IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support?

If the Zip drive is your only SCSI disk, you will find it at /dev/sda.
Otherwise, it will be /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc.  Iomega puts only one
partition on their DOS disks, but they call it partition 4.
Therefore, you would mount it something like this:

	# mount -tmsdos /dev/sdb4 /mnt

I prefer to repartition the disks and put ext2 filesystems on them,
something like this:

	# fdisk /dev/sdb
	d
	4
	n
	p
	4
	1
	96
	w
	# mke2fs /dev/sdb1
	# mount -text2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

                      - Jim Van Zandt