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Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO

Kyle Dansie, dansie@ibm.net

v2.5, 07 March 2002


This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.

1. Introduction

  • 1.1 Home of this document

2. Quick Start

3. Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive

  • 3.1 SCSI version

4. The ZIP drive

  • 4.1 Parallel port version Zip100
  • 4.2 SCSI external version
  • 4.3 The SCSI Internal version
  • 4.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver
  • 4.5 ATAPI version
  • 4.6 IDE version
  • 4.7 USB version
  • 4.8 ZIP250 version

5. Troubleshooting Install

6. Using the ZIP drive

  • 6.1 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
  • 6.2 An existing DOS formatted disk
  • 6.3 Re-format as a native Linux disk
  • 6.4 fstab entries
  • 6.5 The ZIP Tools disk

7. Performance

8. Frequently asked questions

  • 8.1 Can I plug a printer into the parallel ZIP drive ?
  • 8.2 Do you plan to support EPP/ECP ports in PPA ?
  • 8.3 Can I run Linux from a ZIP drive ?
  • 8.4 Can I boot from the ZIP drive ?
  • 8.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ?
  • 8.6 How can I have the disk mounted at boot time ?
  • 8.7 What happens if there is no disk inserted when I boot ?
  • 8.8 Can I use the parallel drive as a real SCSI disk ?
  • 8.9 Can PPA be used with Iomega's parallel port tape drives ?
  • 8.10 Will PPA work with the parallel port SyQuest EZ135 ?

9. Getting more current information


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