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Subject: Console redirection, and IDE zip drive question:
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Houdy!

First of all: does anyone know how to mount an IOMEGA IDE zip drive?  It
finds the drive on boot up ("hdb: iomega zip", and then gives the same
number of cyls,sects,and heads[tracks], as my harddrive (787/64/63 for
both of them, which I find odd).

However, when I try to mount as msdos, I get errors about bad FS type, or
some such.
Once mount even asked me if I was really trying to mount an extended
partition, instead of it's logical partition.

Fdisk reports that the main partition is non linux, because it's start and
end regons are out side (cylinder?) bounderies.
I should have screen captured the entire thing on my terminal, but
alass...

Syslog reports that "modprobe could not find kernel module "iomega"." (I
tried "mount -t iomega /dev/hdb /mnt/zip").

Any ideas?

Other question:

Does anyone have any idea how one can redirect the console to a ttyS
device?  I can redirect the boot prompt, etc. of LILO, but after it "boots
l" or whatever it "boots", everything reverts back to the standard system
console.

Thanks for any help.

Luke